Complex sentence: Eccentric inventor Wayne Szalinski strives to perfect a ray supposedly capable of shrinking objects by removing the molecules of space within them, his invention consistently fails though, instead causing objects (apples as his test) to explode.
Split into simpler sentences: Eccentric inventor Wayne Szalinski strives to perfect a ray supposedly capable of shrinking objects by removing the molecules of space within them. It consistently fails though, instead causing objects (apples as his test) to explode.