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Dec. 20th, 2004 11:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rosawThis morning, as I struggled to achieve consciousness and a level of coherence necessary to work on my diss, I was reading The Physics of Santa and giggling. I read a particular passage to my SO and he said, as he strolled out of the room, "Santa has a time-turner. Duh."
It's beautiful in its simplicity. I was postulating that there were multiple Santas (There Can Be More Than One) and objecting to the idea that only children in Christian Cultures were visited by Santa (very un-Santa of Santa to only visit kids in Christian cultures) but I think the time-tuner hypothesis does solve the entire problem better than the multi-Santa solution. Unless there are many Santas, each with his own time turner.
This rumination on The Santa Problem (TSP)has been brought to you by the Rosa Westphalen Christmas Cheer project. I now return you to your regularly scheduled holiday cheer.
Tomorrow we "celebrate" the shortest day of the year, also know as The Day The Sun Promises to Return. Yay!
It's beautiful in its simplicity. I was postulating that there were multiple Santas (There Can Be More Than One) and objecting to the idea that only children in Christian Cultures were visited by Santa (very un-Santa of Santa to only visit kids in Christian cultures) but I think the time-tuner hypothesis does solve the entire problem better than the multi-Santa solution. Unless there are many Santas, each with his own time turner.
This rumination on The Santa Problem (TSP)has been brought to you by the Rosa Westphalen Christmas Cheer project. I now return you to your regularly scheduled holiday cheer.
Tomorrow we "celebrate" the shortest day of the year, also know as The Day The Sun Promises to Return. Yay!
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Date: 2004-12-20 02:47 pm (UTC)In the Del Amo Fashion Mall in Torrance, where I used to work, there is a large display of Santas from around the world assembled in a circular order. I used to call it the 'International conspiracy of Santas ring'. :)