In this episode, Veritasium dives into Paul Dirac’s revolutionary work showing that plugging negative energy into Einstein’s famous equation doesn’t just break physics—it predicts an entire “anti-universe.” From Schrödinger’s hiccups and the Klein–Gordon equation’s shortcomings to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, Dirac weaves it all together into his eponymous equation, revealing a mirror world of antiparticles.
Along the way you’ll learn how the theory led to the positron’s real-world discovery, why these “anti-electrons” are like particles running time backwards, and how Dirac’s bold ideas still shape modern physics—and haunt its saddest chapters.
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