TL;DR
Derek Muller (Veritasium) dives into Paul Dirac’s mind-bending journey from the “wrong” Schrödinger equation to his revolutionary Dirac equation, which naturally predicts particles with negative energy. By embracing this odd result, Dirac not only anticipated the positron but sketched the idea of an “anti-universe” where antiparticles might even move backward in time.
Along the way we meet the quirky math behind negative solutions, the real-life discovery of the anti-electron, and how this breakthrough reshaped modern physics—earning Dirac both awe and the bittersweet realization that nature’s mirror image is stranger than anyone expected.
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