Einstein’s Big Split

By Christiana Jenkins

There was once a little boy named

Albert.

He was the smartest boy in the whole world.

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.

While he was looking around the house for something to eat, he

decided that he wanted to make a

banana split.

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.

The first person he called was his friend Michael

Faraday.

When Albert told Michael about how

he wanted to make a banana split, Michael

told him that he would bring over some bananas.

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.

Albert found that very interesting so

he wrote down an E on his formula sheet and called it energy.

E=energy

The next person Albert called was his

friend Lavoisier.

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.

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

mass.

M=mass

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.

So they decided to

call Ole Roemer.

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.

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

As the group of friends got

ready to dive into the split, they noticed

that there were not any sprinkles or cherries on

top.

So they called their other two friends

Emilie Du Chatalet, who brought the

cherries and Robert Recorde who brought

the sprinkles.

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

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

After Albert and his friends finished

their banana split, they looked at the paper that Albert

had wrote on.

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

Years after Albert’s

incredible formula was

invented many physicists began to study it and

use it for different

purposes.

One of those people was the

physicist Lise Meitner.

Meitner studied radioactivity and nuclear physics.

Lisa Meitner is famous for the

discovery of nuclear fission.

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

E=MC2

Not only are physicists taking advantage of Einstein’s formula.

E=MC2

But hospitals are using the formula too.

They use the formula for many

different technological

inventions.

Like PET scans.

PET scans use a radioactive substance that illuminates the

body.

This allows the doctors to look at an x-ray type picture of

your body.

To find out if something does not

look right on the inside.

Another study is kinesthetics.

Which is the study of motion.

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.

Einstein’s formula also helps us

understand how light works.

Along with energy and mass.

Energy and Mass