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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.
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.
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