1) Albert Einstein was trying to solve an important formula but needed a snack, so he decided to make a banana split with his friends. 2) Each friend brought an ingredient that related to a scientific concept, such as energy or mass, allowing Einstein to derive his famous equation E=mc2. 3) This equation changed the world by enabling discoveries like nuclear fission and technologies like PET scans that use radioactive substances to create medical images.

1. Einstein’s Big Split By Christiana Jenkins

2. There was once a little boy named Albert.

3. He was the smartest boy in the whole world.

4. 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.

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

6. 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.

7. The first person he called was his friend Michael Faraday.

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

9. 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.

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

11. The next person Albert called was his friend Lavoisier.

12. 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.

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

14. 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.

15. So they decided to call Ole Roemer.

16. 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.

17. 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. C=Speed of light

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

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

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

21. 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. C 2

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

23. 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. E=MC2

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

25. One of those people was the physicist Lise Meitner.

26. Meitner studied radioactivity and nuclear physics.

27. Lisa Meitner is famous for the discovery of nuclear fission.

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

29. E=MC2 Not only are physicists taking advantage of Einstein’s formula.

30. But hospitals are using the formula too.

31. They use the formula for many different technological inventions.

32. Like PET scans.

33. PET scans use a radioactive substance that illuminates the body.

34. This allows the doctors to look at an x-ray type picture of your body.

35. To find out if something does not look right on the inside.

36. Another study is kinesthetics.

37. Which is the study of motion.

38. 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.

39. Einstein’s formula also helps us understand how light works.

40. Along with energy and mass. Energy and Mass