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The science of Santa

By Gregory Mone

16 December 2009

HOW does Santa Claus manage to traverse the entire globe in just a few hours, delivering presents to millions of well-behaved children? 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. Where did he get all this stuff?

He could not have invented everything himself. He would have had to devise E=mc2 decades before Einstein, then sprinted through a century…

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