The Superposition of St. Nicholas
At the current time of the year people often engage in silly little games, such as following Santa Claus from his home in the North Pole, on this trip around the world to deliver gifts to the all the good little boys and girls. Part of the ritual of this tracking of the jolly old elf involves people pondering how it is possible he can make all those stops in just one night and other fun Scientific American ponderings on how the whole thing works.
This kind of thing is ridiculous. Only the very small minded and gullible believe that Santa leaves the North Pole and travels the world annually, and the concern with how he manages this feat is are likewise absurd. The interest in Santa Claus as a phenomenon is an attempt to comprehend the miraculous, not to admire some advanced delivery workflow and application of superior analytics.
The trip that Santa makes to deliver presents to the good happens every year at the same time, that is to say next years’ has already happened, it happened when this year’s happened and this year’s happened when last year’s happened, and that of 100 hundred years ago and 100 years from now also happen at the same time together. Santa Claus does not travel from child to child like a train conductor, he makes only one trip, to everyone at once.
This is the aspect of Yuletide that is truly miraculous.
From our viewpoint Santa leaves a million times, but from a higher dimensional plane it is evident Santa leaves only once, at all times simultaneously, his travels in ever reality being undertaken at that same instant. Furthermore while it may seem from our limited perspective that he travels between the houses of good children, he in fact will travel to every child’s house in every time, leaving at the exact same second for each one at the same time.
Those children that in our reality are bad and are on the naughty list, in some other reality are on the good list and are being visited.
As such, studies like this one are close to being correct http://www.markovojinovic.com/professional/pdf/2004-SantaClaus.pdf but are still far off the mark.
Consider the quote:
Consider Santa in a quantum state Ψ(k) delivering a present into a k-th house (number k ∈ N counts all houses Santa should visit, and takes values from 1 to 7.5 · 108). He carries in a bag only two presents which he will leave in the house. Let us sum now all states Ψ(k) for all possible values of k. The result is, by the superposition principle, also a possible state for the Santa, a coherent superposition of all single-house states. If Santa is in this coherent superposition state, then he actually leaves presents in all houses simultaneously (much like the particle going through two slits simultaneously). But this means that he has full ten hours to drive the sleigh to the house, with just two presents in the bag, hide and wait where no one would see him, leave the presents below the tree, and drive off after that! And this in turn means that there is no need for high-velocity sleigh, no 300 thousand tons of presents, no need for only 0.048 milliseconds of time available for delivery!
Of course even with that model there are the problems associated with the fact that these deliveries have been taking place for thousands of years, in fact the model whereby all deliveries happen instantaneously in every reality because Santa has left with his presents for everyone that has ever lived and that ever will live at exactly the same time is the only workable model for solving all logical problems and contradictions involved with the delivery of presents at Christmas.