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predicted antimatter from pure math, then physics had no choice but to agree.
means paul dirac, the physicist who wrote an equation for the electron so elegant it demanded a mirror-universe particle exist.
from in 1928 dirac merged quantum mechanics with special relativity into one equation; the math kept spitting out negative-energy solutions he couldn't dismiss, so he proposed antimatter — the positron, confirmed in 1932.
delta functioninvented a spike infinite at one point, zero elsewhere, useful anyway
famous silenceso quiet colleagues invented a unit, one word per hour
nobel agewon the physics prize at just 31
beauty over databelieved equations should be beautiful before being right