Holiday Fun

[Manic Velocity]

This is all a joke, right?  I mean, Santa does exist, doesn't he?  You guys are just trying to scare me.

[Anonymous]

stop lying, santa exists. he bought me lots of cool stuff!

[Kosila]

what make you time Santa can't stop time?

Well actually, I once wrote a 10 page philosophy essay about time.

Existence is based on change of time. If time did not change, then nothing would exist. We all exist because we travel across several points in time. You must exist at each of these points in time to exist overall. Otherwise, you will cease to exist.

If Santa was able to be at a single point in time (if Santa were to stop time for himself), then he would no longer exist, since he would be frozen at a single point in time. When you cease to exist, then you can no longer unfreeze time since you don't exist to be able to unfreeze time. Furthermore, if you didn't exist, how could you deliver presents?

You could also look at it the other way. According to Einstein, the speed limit of any mass is the speed of light. If a mass were to travel faster than the speed of light, it would no longer exist (relative to other masses), since it would skip several points in time. But it can easily come back to existence at a future point in time because it still exists on its own timeline (ie. it is still traveling across several points in time, just skipping a few).

Santa could not come back to existence (after freezing time) because he is not traveling across several points in time. And if he was to travel at the speed of light, then his atoms would break down and, according to Epicurus, he would die and once again cease to exist.

EDITED: Changed the word "span" to "travel". Span isn't the right word :S

[Eroz]

That sounds like a fun paper.

[Lithium]

damn Canadians trying to sound smart.

[Anonymous]

your physics/philosophy is the devil!

[Anonymous]

w00t!

[Anonymous]

But If he believe that he can be at many point in an instant then by your logic/philosophy, he can.

[Kosila]

But If he believe that he can be at many point in an instant then by your logic/philosophy, he can.

I changed the word "Span" to "Travel" to be more clear. Span wasn't the right word to use. :S

[Da6onet]

according to statistical mechanics, it is possible that everyone's presents could simply materialize in their homes every christmas. of course the probability of this occuring would be 1 in 10 dotrigintillion for each displaced atom of each present of each person at every instant of the average amount of time it takes said displaced atoms to travel to their new location in a 24hour period.

the other possibility, existance in a particular space and time is defined by a standard deviation graph that looks something like this

It has been proven, that things such as an electron, which are very small and move very fast, cannot be proven to exist in one particular place at one particular time, there is instead a range in which a particular electron could exist. The more particles in a defined range, the higher the probability, if you were to say "shoot" one, you would hit it dead on. Now take that scale to n dimensions and lets assume santa can drastically alter the standard deviations, say by using extreme gravity wells (he is a heavy man). then all of a sudden he could in theory exist in multiple places at once at many different points in time. It's somewhat hard to comprehend that since we interpret only 3 dimensions at a time, but it could explain why we never really see him in action, because he's not really "all there" when he delivers our presents.

[Anonymous]

w00t! Santa Does exist!!!

[Anonymous]

Or another theory...

franchise.

[Lithium]

It's that time of year again to give a bump to this thread for a third year. Be sure to read the first post.

[Subb]

But remember; Santa is special he may not be 100% human! Also his Reindeer's have a magic potion! Pirus told me!

[Lithium]

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