Something Weird Happens When E=−mc² dives into Paul Dirac’s wild ride from spotting a glitch in Schrödinger’s equation to dreaming up an entire anti-universe. You’ll see how the math leaps through the Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations, hits Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, and even leads to Dirac’s heartbreak over negative-energy solutions—until he boldly predicts the anti-electron, aka the positron.
Packed with insights from Graham Farmelo and Cumrun Vafa, plus rare archives from Caltech and Florida State University, this Veritasium video shows how Dirac’s idea—that antiparticles might be matter traveling backward in time—upended modern physics and opened the door to the spooky realm of antimatter.
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