Something Weird Happens When E = –mc² dives into how Paul Dirac wrestled with the Schrödinger equation’s failure to respect relativity and ended up predicting a whole anti-universe. You’ll follow the journey from negative energy conundrums through the Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations, meet the “strangest man in physics,” and see how weird math turned into the real discovery of the positron—antimatter’s first proof.
Along the way, the video sprinkles in expert insights from Graham Farmelo and Cumrun Vafa, digs into Heisenberg’s uncertainty, and even teases the idea that antiparticles are just electrons traveling backwards in time. It’s a fun, informal tour of how one equation changed our view of reality—and opened the door to an entire mirror world.
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