I thought of this paradox last night, i was watching tv and it hit me, if nothing, except light itself, can travel at the speed of light, how does santa deliver all his presents on time?

I thought of this paradox last night, i was watching tv and it hit me, if nothing, except light itself, can travel at the speed of light, how does santa deliver all his presents on time?
Are you high?

I thought of this paradox last night, i was watching tv and it hit me, if nothing, except light itself, can travel at the speed of light, how does santa deliver all his presents on time?

Rudolf uses his red nose to create a temporal distortion around Santa and his sleigh. This is elementary physics. You should know this. :cool:

cuz santa is within us and the presents he gives are mental presents like good conscience and happiness.

it is also possible to go faster than what we currently think is the speed of light. when we're on a higher level of consciousness, da light will appear to go faster.

ugh, temporal time distortion, never thought of that, i concede, you win again relativity, for now...

Perhaps Santa is a tachyon. His outfit is tacky enough to supprot that conclusion :D

-Dale

Here ya go - Santa at Nearly the Speed of Light:

http://www.fnal.gov/pub/ferminews/santa/

Too late - relativity's been disproved four times already on this forum. Possibly more. Santa just read it before you did.

hate to be the one to tell you guys, but, sadly, there is no Santa.

It's not the same time everywhere.

You mean in America, there is a Santa? And in the East, there are Djinn? I must travel more.

(Poor relativity - disproved, misspelled, and generally dejected...)

The problem is not to disprove relativity or the existance of santa. Santa consistantly delivers toys to all of the boys and girls every year, so the problem is figuring out how he does it.

ok guys i think we've established relativity wins this round, but ill be back with more gold mine theories!

ok guys i think we've established relativity wins this round, but ill be back with more gold mine theories!

Don't give up so easily. ;)

If relativity is true and Santa travels at extreme relative speed, then the photons from Rudolph's nose relative to an earthly observer would be contracted to very small wave lengths. Set up an experiement on many rooftops to detect a change in the number of high energy photons during the Christmas Eve delivery period.

If the average level does not change, but the presents are still delivered by Santa then it is safe to assume that the sleigh led by Rudolph does not travel at relative speeds, or that relativity is bogus.

If the sleigh does not travel at relative speeds, it is impossible for Santa to deliver the presents on time. If relativity is bogus, well, that was the point of the thread anyway.

Maybe Santa is everywhere simultaneously in some sort of un-collapsed quantum state, and he propogates based on whether or not you are good or bad.

That would explain how he keeps tabs on who's naughty and who's nice

prop A gates.

Yes. I am always good or bad.

And naughty. Except when I am nice. ( When is THAT? ).