Something Weird Happens When E=−mc² takes you on a journey through Paul Dirac’s revolutionary twist on quantum mechanics. After showing why the Schrödinger and Klein–Gordon equations fall apart for relativistic particles, Dirac’s eponymous equation not only respects both relativity and quantum theory—but spits out solutions with “negative energy.”
Those oddball solutions weren’t just math tricks: they predicted antiparticles like the positron—essentially electrons running backward in time. The video walks you through Dirac’s eureka moment, the human stories behind the science, and the mind-bending idea of a hidden anti-universe lurking in the equations.
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