Here's what Santa has to live up to, in terms of the number of households he has to reach and the average distance between them. All told, Santa has the responsibility of delivering presents to right around million households, with a mean separation that rises to 0.
While that adds up to a whole lot of visits and an awful lot of distance to travel, Santa doesn't have a whole lot of time to get everything accomplished.
Starting from sundown on Christmas Eve on one side of the international date line in Russia and ending just before sunrise on Christmas Day on the other side in Alaska , Santa at least has the benefit of being close to the winter solstice, which gives him some extra time in the Northern Hemisphere. In that brief time, Santa has to accomplish the following tasks:.
Santa Claus delivered presents all over the world, and sightings have been reported in even The idea that one person could accomplish all of those tasks some million times in a hour period seems a daunting challenge. In fact, innumerable parents of children who've ever believed in Santa Claus can provide testimonials as to what a challenge it is for even one household!
But Santa is undaunted by the monumental task before him. With million households to visit and 42 hours to do it in, that means Santa has a total of just microseconds 0. Sound impossible? Maybe for a normal human with conventional technology, sure. And if you accept science, you should have faith in Santa, too.
Let's take a look at each of the objections you may have. Many popular depictions of Santa don't involve him following the optimal path as determined by In fact, science tells us exactly how he'd make it happen! There's no way Santa could travel to each house that quickly.
These speeds aren't so bad; compared to the vehicles we've designed, the speeds Santa needs aren't actually all that fast. At least, not compared to relativity and the speed of light. To move that 0. Sure, that might seem awfully fast compared to your typical sleigh, or even your typical car, train or supersonic aircraft.
If you fuel up those reindeer right, there's no reason to believe Santa can't make this house-to-house journey in record time. Surely, traveling at incredibly large speeds with an open cockpit would be a devastating proposition But with the right technological advances applied, it just might be possible to fly to half-a-billion households in a single, crazy night without harming yourself at all.
There's no way an open sleigh — and a Santa within — could handle the heat or acceleration generated. First, there's the heat objection. Moving at those intense speeds, the frictional forces of the atmosphere alone could be a disaster; the only thing we're familiar with that collides with the atmosphere at those speed are meteors, and satellites that re-enter the atmosphere.
So don't take my word that Santa can get to everyone's home all around the world to deliver gifts in just one night! You know that there are Nice kids and Naughty kids, right? Well, there's also Matter and anti-Matter. If you put two children in a room for long enough, they start to fight I know this -- I'm a grumpy elf!
When they fight, they release a lot of energy although not usually in a good way! Matter and anti-Matter work like that. They release enough energy to easily go to Mars. So, using that energy to go around the Earth is child's play. You only need two things to fly around the world in one night: lift and desire thrust.
Everyone knows Santa's special reindeers' antlers are big, very big. They are specially designed to catch children's Christmas wishes and dreams. These wishes and dreams give Santa and the reindeer the two things they need: 1.
Once presents start to be delivered, Santa's reindeer fly ever faster. As children around the world open their presents, the children are filled with pure Christmas joy. See the section It's Not Just 24 Hours! The reindeer's antlers catch the children's Christmas joy too. This joy gives the reindeer and Santa even more of a lift and thrust.
They fly and work ever faster delivering more presents for children to open! This virtuous circle makes it so the sleigh essentially floats on air and the presents deliver themselves! So now you know the secrets to Santa delivering presents! And now you know how fast Santa can travel. You even know how Santa gets around the world in one night! Just please don't tell everyone. I don't want people appearing and disappearing all over the place like they were Santa Claus delivering all the presents!
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Matter and Antimatter " ". Why is Rudolph's nose red? Cite This! Try Our Sudoku Puzzles! More Christmas Merriment. Santa is not doomed by these constraints, as his mission is essential and requires him to be safe all the time. A suit that is pressurized well, combined with a turbine system that is biological and that has more power than a human heart, could easily do the job. To Santa, the happiness of children all over the world, especially during the Christmas holiday season is more important and worth of a little organ replacement to make him accommodate the extraordinary speed during the journey.
How does Santa get into all these houses quietly and he never leaves any notable footprints? Sometimes you might be tempted to think, how a big older man gets into the houses through the windows, chimneys, or any other entry points on homes. At least there would be evidence of him struggling to get through the vents most of the times.
However, in the quantum Universe though, there is a limited probability that if you are on the other side of the barrier and run into it, you will not merely smash into it or bounce off. Instead, you might tunnel through the other side. This phenomenon of quantum tunneling is known to occur and should result in a finite probability of even microscopic objects doing so, albeit with very low likelihood. The delivery of the presents does not need to take much of Santa's time.
As long as he arrives at the respective house, the delivery time can be as short as possible. He only needs to get them from the sleigh, get into the house undetected, and release the gifts.
This is the most crucial task in the whole process, but funny enough it takes the shortest time. So you no longer need to question the shorter time that is used by Santa to deliver the toys and goodies, he is swift, magical and above all, this is a simple task to Santa Claus.
You see, this is logical about Santa! The pulling of the sleigh requires one to use massive amounts of energy, and this applies even to Santa Claus. Imagine dragging the sleigh for millions of miles and making stopovers in more than ,, households! This will require Santa to eat as many Christmas snacks as he can to facilitate his journey. The magical reindeer might not need eating as its magical abilities might take care of the entire trip but as for Santa, the energy has to be got from food.
Many fiction tellings are telling of the Santa story, where he depends on magic, technology or some helpers but that is for the doubters out there who do not understand the pure magic and power of Christmas.
Santa has all it takes to do what he does in the spirit of happiness and joy to children during the Christmas season. Because he is magic. There are 2 billion children across the world, and that is a lot of presents he needs to deliver in one night.
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