X-Message-Number: 8953
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 05:09:42 -0500
From: yvan Bozzonetti <>
Subject:  Re: SANTA CLAUS: An Engineer's Perspective

In message # 8952 Doug explains why this faith in Santa Claus is low, to be
sure I disagree :-)

> This means 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, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4
>miles per second, and a conventional reindeer can run (at best) 15 miles
>per  hour.

Doug, you know, a sleigh can't fly as an airplane. The simplest explanation
is the use of a "space commutator": Santa turns a switch and find itself in
a redefined space using simplectic geometry. The rest state in that
simplectic world moves with tremendous speed as seen from our euclidean
space. No speed or acceleration problem!

>  3.      The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element.
> Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium sized Lego set
>(two pounds), the sleigh is carrying over 500 thousand tons.

Santa needs only to carry the information to build back the quantum state
of each particle in each toy, because black holes can pack information at
least 10^18 times more efficiently than ordinary matter, he need only a
mere 5. 10^-7 g B.H. and a quantum state teletransporter (a standard device
of quantum computing) to build back an object from local matter (air or
anything else).

> 5.    Therefore, if Santa did exist, he's dead now.

That technology is some centuries from us, so Santa is not born yet... or
he is a cryonics user!

How could he be here for christmas then? could he use time travel? Current
physics data point out to the so called dual theory of space-time,
exchanging bozons and fermions particles in 11 space dimensions and 2
times. A surface time would permit time half turn without paradox.

I have another use for Santa technology: Recovering biological informations
of dead people, even if they are dust or cremated. Well, that may be a lot
more costly than "ordinary cryonics" and ask for some more years to enter
the technology toolbox, but I see no reason to discard Santa's world.

                Yvan Bozzonetti.

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