Chapter 8
It’s All About Energy
33When Bus #11 pulled up to George’s bus
stop the next morning, he watched a man
run off the bus and then turn around and
shout, “You’re crazy, lady!”
“Oh yeah!” Joy shouted back. “When you are ready to
learn something on my bus let me know.”
“What was that all about?” George asked as he took
his usual seat.
“He believes in the biggest illusion of our time,” Joy
answered. “Bigger than the illusion that the world is flat
or that the sun moves east to west.”
“Illusion,” George paused. “What are you talking
about?”
“The illusion that we live in a physical world,” she de-
clared with the confidence of a college professor. “You
see, George, the universe is made of energy. Einstein
taught us that.”
Danny lifted up a piece of paper. “See, George, E =
MC^2 ,” he said.
Joy continued. “Einstein taught that anything that is