"Possibly... [Dirac's] biggest achievement was... the equation for the electron... a sort of extension to Schrödinger's equation, which allowed quantum theory to be combined with Einstein's special theory of relativity. ...Dirac's equation is very ...similar to Schrödinger's equation, the difference being that these ...are not numbers, they are matrices, and this is one of the ...great equations of all time ...Farmelo wrote a book about the eighteen greatest formulae of all time, and that's one of them. ...This equation ...explained other things about the electron. These have been experimentally verified to huge precision.{{center|1=\left(\beta mc^2 + c\; (\sum_{n = 1}^{3}\alpha_n p_n)\right) \psi (z,t) = i \hbar \frac{\partial\psi(z,t) }{\partial t} }}"
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