All the calculations were checked again and time. Gatij Kumar was quite confident that something was wrong with the formulas. He once again cross-checked all the derivations but nothing was evident. Something was wrong with the Kinetic energy. He has studied the work of so many scientists. There was no explanation in the antiquity regarding the half. The blackboard of the room was as filled with derivations that there was no space left for further writing. The papers were scattered all over the table and the floor was full of twisted pieces of paper. Finding no way out, he stretched himself on the rotating chair and look again at the derivations on the board. The half was like an uninvited guest, who was not ready to go back to infinity.

In dire confusion, he sent a message to Mr. Leibniz. His servant told him that he was out of station for few more days. Getting no favorable reply, he tried contacting Mr. Bernoulli. “He Might be busy with the derivations of hydrodynamics in his lab”, he thought. The laboratory of Mr. Bernoulli was situated in the basement of his home where he usually spends most of the time. Gatij got up from his desk, took his research papers, and went straight to his cycle stand. Bernoulli’s was not so far from his place. The cycle took not more than twenty-five minutes to reach the place. He went straight to the lab and asked the assistant to tell Mr. Bernoulli about his arrival. The lab was an old-fashioned one with lots of unused stuff lying in the corner. The walls were faded and the plaster of the wall was falling from here and there. The false ceiling was worn out and loosely hanging. A flickering fluorescent light in the hallway was much irritated. Finally, the renounced scientist appeared with heavy glasses on the eyes which was supported by the traditional brown frame.

After a formal introduction, Gatij Kumar asked him about his new project which was being carried out in the lab. Interrupting in-between furiously, he asked Gatij why he was there. Gatij took out his notes and started explaining to him about his disorientation. Mr. Bernoulli stared at him and shouted, “so, you are wasting my precious time on these silly things, don’t you know I am busy with much more important? You must leave”. Mr. Bernoulli stood up at once and went back to his room where he came from some moments ago. Gatij was shocked at the behavior, but he doesn’t have any choice rather than getting out of the place. He thought in his mind why all scientists are eccentric.

Gatij took his cycle and paddled towards William Rankine’s place. He was a Scottish engineer and physicist. Gatij was very upset at the behavior of Mr. Bernoulli. On the contrary, Mr. Rankine was a gentleman. He attended Gatij with due respect and affection. He offered him a glass of wine and asked him about his arrival. Overwhelmed by the hospitality of the nobleman, Gatij started explaining his perspective about the wearied derivations. Mr. Rankine listened carefully and after the narrative, he proclaimed that he has been following the great grand philosopher Aristotle while postulating the potential energy formula. Hence, he has nothing to do with the fundamentals of hyper physics. Plain sailing, he remarked that he overlooks the nugatory half.

Gatij was heartbroken with the response but he was well attended by Mr. Rankine and the hospitality shown by him. He thought about Aristotle and asked Mr. Rankine about some reliable source who can reply to his queries. Mr. Rankine hesitated first, but after some self-brainstorming, he suggested visiting Mr. Albert Einstein. His theory about mass-energy equivalence was published in Annus Mirabilis papers a few decades ago.

Listening to this, Gatij felt a deep urge to meet Mr. Albert Einstein. He searched his whereabouts and got to know that Mr. Einstein was admitted to Princeton Hospital in New Jersey. He has experienced internal bleeding caused by the rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm. Gatij managed to travel to New Jersey. During his transit, he was very excited to meet the great scientist of the century. As soon as he reached the hospital on17th April 1955, and, he managed to meet Mr. Einstein. But contrary to his imagination, Mr. Einstein was in no mood of listing to Gatij’s saga. Rather he started telling him about his childhood and his passion for music during his teenage.

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. My mother played the piano reasonably well and wanted me to learn the violin, not only to instill in me a love of music but also to help me assimilate into German culture.”

The chronicle was not yet complete and the surgeon came to suggest a surgery which would be required to mend that ruptured part of the great scientist. He simply refused the surgery saying,

“I want to go then I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share. It is time to go. I will do it elegantly. The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible is a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can change this. … For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. And the  Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. … I cannot see anything ‘chosen’ about them.”

The whole night went in great confusion. While I was trying hard on him to listen to me and my query, he was busy telling me about his non-scientific legacy. The next morning on 18th April 1955, he died while working until near the end. Mr. Einstein was preparing a speech for a television appearance commemorating the State of Israel’s seventh anniversary. 

The pathologist of the hospital named Thomas Harvey, removed his brain for preservation, even without the permission of the family. In his opinion, he was hoping that futuristic neuroscience would be able to discover what made Einstein so intelligent. Margot Einstein, a sculptor, and the adopted stepdaughter of Mr. Einstein instructed to criminate his father’s remains, (obviously without a brain), in New Jersey and his ashes were scattered at an undisclosed location. With the ashes, scattered was my aim, to give a breakthrough in the field of science.

Margot Lowenthal Einstein was living at 112, Mercer Street in New Jersey. She had no interest in physics and science. After the funeral, Gatij went there to pay homage and lifted his hand in valediction. Before leaving, Gatij meets Margot. Margot’s mother Elsa died in 1936 after she was diagnosed with heart and kidney problems resulting in a painful illness. She told Gatij that during such times, his stepfather tried to escape from his troubles by focusing on work that would distract him from Elsa’s dying. Gatij was stunned at the revelation of the facts. He told her why he came to meet her father and the bewilderment concerning the half. Even she has no interest in science, but still, out of curiosity, she asked Gatij to show her the findings. He delineated in just three lines of his conclusions about the extra half:

E = m c2 = m v2

P.E. = mgh = m v t -1 s = m v v = m v2 

K.E. = ½ m v2

Gatij comprehended her “If energy is neither created nor destroyed then all the formulae meant to calculate energy must be same. But, on the contrary, we have kinetic energy, where this extra half has been affixed by some unknown scientist, and now no one is ready to take the responsibility. Also, no one is ready to amend the so-called formula.” 

After observing the facts about the extra half in kinetic energy, she was quite impressed with the young scientist. Out of eagerness, she asked Gatij, what his name’s meaning. And smilingly he said – Kinetic.

Dr. R.K. Panchal

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