Santa Claus, also known as Saint Nicholas, Kris Kringle, Father Christmas, or simply Santa, is a legendary figure originating in Western Christian culture who is said to bring gifts to the homes of well-behaved (“good” or “nice”) children on Christmas Eve (24 December) and the early morning hours of Christmas Day (25 December)..
The modern Santa Claus grew out of traditions surrounding the historical Saint Nicholas (a fourth-century Greek bishop and gift-giver of Myra), the British figure of Father Christmas and the Dutch figure of Sinterklaas (himself also based on Saint Nicholas). Some maintain Santa Claus also absorbed elements of the Germanic god Wodan, who was associated with the pagan midwinter event of Yule and led the Wild Hunt, a ghostly procession through the sky.
But is he real…?
In 2014, PBS went in depth on the ways that SANTA delivers gifts.. the facts behind the ‘fake news’ ..
Kids… your parents have been lying to you: SANTA CLAUS IS REAL.
There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT since Santa doesn’t (appear to) handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total – 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau.
Santa’s sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man- made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second – a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.
And how does this work?
The MULTIVERSE…
American physicist Hugh Everett, who called it the many-worlds interpretation or the multiverse.
It holds that we are living in a multiverse of countless universes, each a duplicate of one another. Anything in our past is fixed in time, but the multiverse lies ahead of us and is not fixed until we make a choice and, for example, take the train rather than the bus or eat chicken rather than beef.
Now imagine Santa with countless homes to visit, each requiring a certain mix of toys. He can choose a home and appropriate toys and instantaneously be there to deliver them, with that house and presents fixed in time.
He can then move on to the next multiverse home with its mix of toy options. He doesn’t have to carry all the toys at once: they will exist as options in his multiverse and are fixed when he makes his choice.
The fact that no one knows where Santa is at a particular moment in time makes him a perfect candidate for some elementary use of Heisenberg’s Principle of Uncertainty.
On Christmas night, Santa is in a superposition of quantum states, all the way around the planet, and each quantum state delivers presents to a single child. This explains why it is so important that children are asleep, because if just one child sees Santa, he immediately collapses into a single state, in accordance with Heisenberg. So peeking in on Santa would freeze him in that small moment in time and that would mean that no other children would receive presents that Christmas…
And all of this reality would collapse.
Or fiction.
But Santa is real…
….if the multiverse is.
