The Science of Santa

Santa Claus must use advanced technologies to pull off his annual feat. Thankfully, NewScientist has the exclusive about the what and the how. "He relies on some impressive gadgets: miniature flying robots, advanced satellites, highly sensitive surveillance devices, memory-erasing milk, self-assembling toys, and a warp-drive-powered sleigh that's capable of bending and twisting space-time to such an extent that it slips Santa and his reindeer out of the observable universe. In 1949, Kurt Gödel published one of the first mathematical descriptions of how it could work. In his version, the universe has paths called closed time-like curves that might allow you to jump in a ship, fly for a while, and end up right back where you started in space and time."

Comments

Of Course We Knew This

[pertelote]

Always knew Santa had to have *all* the cool toys!

I figured it out a long time ago

[tepples]

The mall Santas deliver the presents. It's the only explanation that meets Occam's razor without exposing parents as Santa.

Geeks...

[girlintraining]

Amazing. They believe in advanced quantum physics AND Santa. Most ordinary people would just say "he doesn't exist" around the age of 9 and move on. But not geeks!

Memory-erasing milk?

[Scott Kevill]

The milk is supposed to be left for Santa, not by Santa.

So kids with a crush on Santa are definitively deciding the naughty or nice question by slipping him some rohypnol.