This means that 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 on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.
Going from 77 kilometres per second to rest and back to 77 kilometres per second again means an average acceleration of just over one billion 'G's.
Santa Claus is faster than both the Flash and Superman, who are prevented from exceeding the speed of light by the laws of physics.
At least, not compared to relativity and the speed of light. To move that 0.205 mile (0.33 km) average distance from house-to-house, assuming a time of 150 microseconds (which is half the total time he's allowed at each house), Santa need only travel at around 1,367 miles-per-second (2,200 km/s).
We've learnt that time can be stretched, space can be squeezed and light can be bent – and use this to create controllable rifts in time called relativity clouds. This means that Santa has more than just 36 hours to make all those deliveries – months in fact!!
Scientists theorize he experiences something called time dilation, which is a phenomenon in which time slows down for an object the faster it moves. In essence, scientists say that Santa Claus moves so fast that time actually slows down for him (See Einstein's Theory of Relativity).
To save time, Santa Claus does not land en route. Instead, he throws presents from his sleigh and lets his regional elves distribute them. He flies at a constant speed (900 km/h) and altitude (10 km).
According to the blog Email Santa, Santa Claus is 1,751 years old as of 2022. In fact, the origins of Santa Claus can be traced all the way back to a monk named Saint Nicholas, who was born between 260 and 280 A.D.
Santa is real in the sense that he was an actual person. Otherwise known as Saint Nicholas, his story goes all the way back to the 3rd century. He was a monk who was born in 280 A.D. in modern-day Turkey. As an only child, he was given great affection by his parents.
There are 192 sleeps (or 191 days, 7 hours, 59 minutes, 54 seconds) until Christmas Day on Glasses Island. That's December 25, 2023!
“His only weakness is cookies and milk, but it doesn't debilitate him like kryptonite,” Dennin notes. “It's merely a distraction.” Here's a look at how St. Nick's powers stack up against those of Superman, the Hulk, and various other Marvel Comics and DC Comics characters.
His powers are vast. He can teleport, travel through chimneys, transform people into inanimate objects, lift two tons (on Christmas), generate snow at will, and he always knows who is naughty and who is nice. Santa's basically already a superhero, the comics just make that a bit more explicit.
His normal strength is augmented on Christmas Eve to lift (press) 2 tons. Santa's full powers are not revealed, though he prefers not to use them in combat or other struggles. While he appears to be a senior, Santa has not physically aged in centuries.
The legend of Santa Claus can be traced back hundreds of years to a monk named St. Nicholas. It is believed that Nicholas was born sometime around A.D. 280 in Patara, near Myra in modern-day Turkey. Much admired for his piety and kindness, St.
Although the Earth's magnetic field is quite weak (the magnetic field from a fridge magnet is 100 times stronger), Santa's technology compensates for this. When the sleigh's magnetic field is high, Santa and the sleigh can fly higher and faster.
One presumes there's at least one good child in each. 3) Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seemes logical).
"It's not an overnight shift in thinking," says Laura Lamminen, Ph. D., a pediatric psychologist at Children's Health℠, "and there's no set age where children should know the truth about Santa Claus." Dr. Lamminen says each family and each child within that family will be ready to talk about Santa at different ages.
"There is no such thing as being too old to believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy," Kelman tells Yahoo Life. "Letting kids figure it out on their own is preferable to parents breaking the news to them.
While kids may no longer look for reindeer on Christmas Eve, your tween might be ready to embrace the spirit of Santa Claus and spread the joy of giving in their own special way. Helping do so guarantees that in your child's heart, Santa will live forever and that he is, in fact, very real.
Because Santa is synonymous with childhood, the belief in him must go away at one point or another if we want our kids to grow up. There's no specific age, necessarily.
Claus almost never have children in any of their many depictions, there is at least one Christmas Burlesque musical from 1892 that features Kitty Claus, the daughter of Santa. Not surprisingly, it wasn't a classic. It looks like Santa's family tree ends with he and Mrs. Claus for now.
The Year Without a Santa Claus is a 1974 stop motion animated Christmas television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions.
The children in Australia believe in Santa Claus. However, since it is summer, it would not be unusual to see Santa dressed in a lighter, cooler version of his red and white suit. Shorts can even be seen! Santa does use reindeer to pull his sleigh when delivering gifts to children in Australia.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command's beloved NORAD Tracks Santa program claims Santa Claus stands at about 5-foot-7 and weighs around 260 pounds – and that's before his round-the-world cookie binge. Christmas lore experts at Yes Santa is Real suggest Mr. Claus is actually 6-foot-6 and 250 pounds.
According to An Idea, If Santa takes two bites of each cookie served around the world, he consumes roughly 336,150,386 cookies.