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LESSON 5 · What Everything Is Made Of

The Mirror Universe

In 1928, physicist Paul Dirac was trying to merge quantum mechanics with Einstein's special relativity.

Four years later, Carl Anderson found Dirac's predicted particle in cosmic ray experiments — the positron, identical to an electron but positively charged. It was the first confirmed piece of antimatter, proving that the mirror universe Dirac's equations described was physically real.