Building the Dirac Equation
February 6, 2026
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as posted by the channelNow that we have a basic understanding of the components of the Standard Model, let's start digging into the math. What did the first attempts to construct a relativistic version of the wave equation yield? We have the Klein-Gordon equation, and then the Dirac Equation. What are these equations and what do they tell us? Let's find out!
Script by Andrew Mattson, Physics PhD Student at Johns Hopkins University
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