Something Weird Happens When E=−mc²

This video dives into Paul Dirac’s mind-bending discovery that negative energy solutions to his famous equation actually predict antimatter—and even hint at an entire “anti-universe” where particles zip backwards in time. You’ll see why the Schrödinger equation couldn’t cut it, meet the “strangest man in physics,” and learn how the positron popped out of those funky math lines.

Along the way, hosts give shout-outs to experts like Graham Farmelo and Cumrun Vafa, point you to cool archives at Florida State and Caltech, and break down the history of the anti-electron, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, and the saddest chapter in modern physics. It’s a wild ride through theory, experimentation, and the very weird nature of reality.

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