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Einstein’s Big Split <br />By Christiana Jenkins <br />

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There was once a little boy named Albert.<br />

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He was the smartest boy in the whole world.<br />

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One day, Albert was working on a very important formula, but he just could not figure it out, so he decided to find something to eat. <br />

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While he was looking around the house for something to eat, he decided that he wanted to make a banana split. <br />

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But he did not have anything in his refrigerator to make a banana split with. So he decided to call some of his friends to bring some ingredients.<br />

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The first person he called was his friend Michael Faraday.<br />

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When Albert told Michael about how he wanted to make a banana split, Michael told him that he would bring over some bananas.<br />

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When Michael brought over the bananas, Michael told Albert that the bananas that he brought were full of energy, and that with this fact he could prove a connection between magnetism and electricity. <br />

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Albert found that very interesting so he wrote down an E on his formula sheet and called it energy.<br />E=energy <br />

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The next person Albert called was his friend Lavoisier. <br />

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Lavoisier decided to bring some whipped cream that he said would never lose its amount of mass even if you melt it to a pulp, the mass of the cream never changed.<br />

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Albert also found that interesting so he wrote an M next to the E on the paper and called the M mass. <br />M=mass <br />

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While trying to start the split they realized that they did not have one thing that could connect the bananas to the whipped cream or the energy to the mass. <br />

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So they decided to call Ole Roemer. <br />

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Roemer told them that he would bring the ice cream that could connect all of the whipped cream to all of the bananas in the entire universe. <br />

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When Roemer brought the ice cream, Albert saw how it connected the other ingredients he wrote a C on the paper to represent speed of light. <br />C=Speed of light <br />

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As the group of friends got ready to dive into the split, they noticed that there were not any sprinkles or cherries on top. <br />

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So they called their other two friends Emilie Du Chatalet, who brought the cherries and Robert Recorde who brought the sprinkles. <br />

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Seeing how the sprinkles showed how the banana split was interchangeable, Albert wrote an equal sign in between the E and the M. <br />E = M <br />

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Albert also saw how the cherries was the finishing touch that increased the entire taste of the whole banana split so he wrote an exponent of 2 above the C and called it squared. <br />C 2<br />

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After Albert and his friends finished their banana split, they looked at the paper that Albert had wrote on. <br />

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They saw a formula that read E=mc2, when they read it they realized that the formula that Albert made from their banana split ingredients made a formula that would change the world. <br />E=MC2<br />

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Years after Albert’s incredible formula was invented many physicists began to study it and use it for different purposes. <br />

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One of those people was the physicist Lise Meitner. <br />

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Meitner studied radioactivity and nuclear physics. <br />

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Lisa Meitner is famous for the discovery of nuclear fission. <br />

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Meitner was able to achieve the discovery of nuclear fission by using the formula that Einstein came up with. <br />E=MC2<br />

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E=MC2<br />Not only are physicists taking advantage of Einstein’s formula. <br />

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But hospitals are using the formula too. <br />

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They use the formula for many different technological inventions.<br />

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Like PET scans. <br />

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PET scans use a radioactive substance that illuminates the body. <br />

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This allows the doctors to look at an x-ray type picture of your body. <br />

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To find out if something does not look right on the inside. <br />

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Another study is kinesthetics. <br />

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Which is the study of motion. <br />

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Even though Einstein’s formula only involves mass at rest, people who study kinethetics saw that the formula also took into account the mass as it is in motion. <br />

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Einstein’s formula also helps us understand how light works.<br />

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Along with energy and mass. <br />Energy and Mass <br />