Dr Soon said that there are moments in physics or mathematics that have no connection to the real world, but they still turn out to be true, like Cambridge professor Paul Dirac's equation that broke ...

Majorana's most influential work is especially poetic, in that it applies Dirac's method to Dirac's equation itself, to distill from it an equation both elegant and new.

Quantum field theory marries the ideas of other quantum theories to depict all particles as “excitations” that arise in underlying fields. The British physicist Paul Dirac started the ball ...