When your kids ask how Santa Claus is able to visit every house in the entire universe in a single night, how do you respond?
My young daughter could careless how Santa is able to fly around the world courtesy of aerodynamic reindeer, sort gifts, slide down chimneys, snack on cookies and deposit coal in some kids’ stockings, and still get home before the sun rises. All she cares about is that Santa delivers. Period.
However, when she does get savvy enough to start inquiring about how the big guy is able to cover 200 million square miles visiting hundreds of millions of homes in just one night, I will likely give her the same stock answer used by millions of parents the world over: magic.
“Santa accomplishes all that he does on Christmas Eve because he has magical powers; now run along and pick up your toys before he puts you on his naughty list.”
Yeah, we’ll see how well that goes over in a few years.
Unfortunately, for some parents the “magic” answer just doesn’t cut it anymore.
Enter modern day science.
Thanks to some ingenious scientists (likely parents themselves) you can explain Santa’s Christmas Eve trip to your kids using tech-talk that they probably comprehend better than you do.
According to researchers, Santa manipulates the space-time continuum. Meaning he knows how to “exploit” and bend time and space in order to cover hundreds of millions of miles.
Mechanical and aerospace engineering professors at North Carolina State University explain Santa’s Christmas Eve tour his way:
“In our reference frame it appears as though he does it in the wink of an eye and in fact there have been sightings of Santa, quick sightings, and that’s in our reference frame, but in Santa’s reference frame he really has six months.”
As for how all those presents get to the right places at the right time, scientists say chock it up to nanotechnology. Those college professors maintain that to get presents under the Christmas tree Santa has figured out how to turn “irreversible thermo-dynamic properties into reversible ones.” Translation: Claus really starts out with soot and other types of natural materials, he puts them under the tree and then he actually grows them in a reverse process to create the presents, wrapping and all.
Huh?
That’s the answer from scientific experts, folks.
I don’t know… sounds like magic to me.
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