Something Weird Happens When E=−mc²
This Veritasium video traces Paul Dirac’s wild ride from the flaws in Schrödinger’s equation to the groundbreaking Dirac equation, revealing those pesky negative-energy solutions nobody saw coming. Along the way you’ll meet the “strangest man in physics,” catch cameos from Heisenberg and Klein-Gordon, and get a primer on why the old quantum rules just didn’t cut it.
Dirac’s math didn’t just stay on paper—it predicted the positron (anti-electron) and even hints at an entire anti-world where particles zip backward in time. It’s a whirlwind origin story of antimatter and a mind-bender reminder that the universe might be stranger than we think.
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