Chapter 1

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1 STAND STILL, WATSON!" SAYS FRANK EINSTEIN. "THIS WON'T hurt... very much." "It's the 'very much' that worries me," answers Watson, trying not to flinch. Frank shuffles his feet on the wool rug. He raises his index finger until it's level with Watson's nose. Klink, plugged into an outlet in a corner of Frank's laboratory, looks up and says, without

any excitement, "Oh, how exciting. I cannot guess what is going to happen." "Me either! Me either! Me either!" beeps Klank. Klink turns his single camera eye to Klank. "I know exactly what is going to happen." "What?" beeps Klank. "What?" says Watson. Frank moves his finger closer to Watson's face. A tiny bolt of electricity jumps from Frank's finger to Watson's nose. Bzzzzzzt! "Yow!" yells Watson. "Success!" cheers Frank. "Ha-ha-ha," beeps Klank. "And people call you a genius?" says Klink. Watson rubs his nose and sits back down at Frank's lab table. "What did you do that for?"

Frank adds a drawing and a quick note to his lab notebook. "Energy. Static electricity. The same thing as lightning, just on a smaller scale." "So you lightning-bolted my nose?" "Yes." "Why?" "Why do we do anything, Watson?" Frank pins a photo of a lightning strike up on the Wall of Science under energy. "To find out how things work. To make our next invention. To get started on figuring out energy. But mostly to make you jump."

Klink unplugs his recharged self and autowinds his cord. "Static electricity," Klink explains. "Free electrons gathered from rubbing the wool rug are negatively charged. They jumped to Watson's positively charged nose because the opposite charges attract." "Which is exactly like lightning," explains Frank. "Storm clouds become negatively charged on the bottom. The lightning is the electricity discharging to the positive ground. Opposite charges attracting." "So... great," says Watson. "You can make an invention to shock everyone's nose?"

"Oh, no," says Frank. "This is about all energy! And energy for all. Energy is what makes everything in the world go. Without energy, nothing would happen."