Something Weird Happens When E=−mc² takes you on a journey through Paul Dirac’s wildest predictions—he turned the Schrödinger equation on its head, cooked up the Dirac equation and accidentally stumbled on an “anti-universe” where particles carry negative energy. Along the way you meet “the strangest man in physics,” learn how the positron was uncovered, and discover why antiparticles might just be particles running backwards in time.
With insight from Graham Farmelo and Cumrun Vafa, plus archival gems from Caltech and FSU, the video unpacks the saddest chapter in modern physics before celebrating Dirac’s accidental triumph: the prediction and eventual discovery of antimatter.
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