Something Weird Happens When E = −mc² dives into Paul Dirac’s quest to make sense of negative energy, revealing how the Dirac equation not only fixed the Schrödinger and Klein–Gordon hiccups but also predicted a whole “anti-universe” and the very existence of the positron. Derek Muller weaves expert insights from Graham Farmelo and Cumrun Vafa with archival treasures from FSU and Caltech to bring Dirac’s story to life.
From the birth of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle to the gut-wrenching realization that antimatter might be matter running backward through time, this video unpacks the anti-electron’s discovery and the mind-bending idea that particles can trace their paths in reverse—literally turning physics on its head.
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