Veritasium dives into Paul Dirac’s wild journey from grappling with negative energy in quantum equations to rewriting the rules of reality. Starting with why Schrödinger’s approach couldn’t handle negative solutions, it traces Dirac’s breakthrough—melding relativity with quantum mechanics—to birth the Dirac equation and redefine how we think about energy, uncertainty, and particles.
The real kicker? Dirac’s math not only predicted the positron but hinted that antiparticles are literally particles running time in reverse, opening the door to an “anti-world.” Along the way, we meet the human side of one of physics’ quirkiest geniuses and learn how his theory led to the first experimental glimpse of antimatter.
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