An clause from a 1990 government issue ofSpymagazine that examine the physics of Santa ’s toy manner of speaking journeying has been floating around the Internet for as long as I can remember . It ’s omnipresence at a certain time of year form of lay down it the entanglement version of the"Yes , Virginia , there is a Santa Claus"editorial . If you have n’t seen it , here it is :
Santa Claus, Ph.D.
If , that ’s a slight cheerless , then deal the alternate view of Larry Silverberg , a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at North Carolina State University . Silverberg posit that Santa is smart enough to cognize that journey across all those millions of miles in one nighttime is a gull ’s errand . Instead , Santa swear on his advanced understanding of the space - time continuum ( you make ta do something for bitch at the North Pole ) to create what Silverberg call " relativity clouds,“ small rips in time that allow Santa to bounce around the humankind at his leisure , posit himself right in people ’s support elbow room and deliver presents in nanoseconds .
And he does n’t actually have to expect all those presents on the sleigh with him . Rather , at each house Santa uses nanotechnology to turn - applied scientist toy , atom by atom , from smut , snow , cookies and other materials pronto available to him .
Good tidings to you
If you were naughty this yr and you ’re getting the cold shoulder from Santa , Martin Nowak , theater director of the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard University , can explain the reasoning behind the present from your friends and syndicate . In the journalProceedings of the Royal Society B , Nowak and Sebastien Roch of the University of California , Berkeley examined phenomenon they call " upstream reciprocity" " “ if someone is nice to you , the good feelings that are created may spur you to be nice to somebody else " “ and " internet reciprocity" " “ being nice to people who are likely to be nice to someone else , with the assumption that a chain response will set about and eventually someone will be dainty to you . The scientists performed a mathematical depth psychology and calculated random chains of selfless act between people and found that a mortal who has been play to kindly or been given a present may return the favor to several other the great unwashed and create an " epidemic" of selflessness .
