Thursday, December 01, 2016

The Science of Christmas!

Behold, boys and girls. Here are again some cool facts and myths explanation regarding Christmas.

  • Thomas Edison introduced Christmas lights to the world in 1880. Might cause a fire on that time because, people put actual candles with flames on their tree.
  • It's a law of the universe that your Christmas lights will tangle (entropy), no matter how carefully you packed them away the year before. Physicists have proven that for any cord longer than 2 meters (even 1 meter though), knots are almost mathematically guaranteed. That's because there's only one way for the string to be "untangled" but endless possibilities for it to get fouled up. And putting it up to a straight one is really pain in the ass!
  • Santa relies on girl power. Santa's sleigh is pulled by a team of reindeer in full antlers. Male reindeer shed their antlers in the winter. So unless every reindeer of Santa's sleigh is wrong, Santa's reindeer are all female.
  • Even if most reindeer can't fly, they do float in water. Their fur traps air, like a puffy jacket. and when they float, they look like a Pokemon! Gonna catch them all!
  • Some reindeer really do have red noses, at least some of the time. It comes from lots of blood vessels in their noses which helps them regulate body temperature. Just like i told you last...last...er...
  • Santa's sleigh would have to travel 1,300 miles per second for him deliver toys to every child on earth on Christmas Eve. If he were flying an ordinary object with no magic, it would burst into flames from the heat generated by air resistance. If he were a regular non-magical guy, there would be other detrimental effects to Santa himself, too.
  • Historical concerned, Santa visits the South Pacific first, then New Zealand and Australia. After that, he shoots up to Japan, over to Asia, across to Africa, then onto Western Europe, Canada, the United Sta States, Mexico and Central and South America. Santa is really fascinating!
  • Star of Bethlehem was an actually a rare alignment of planets, several of which occurred between 3 B.C. and 2 B.C. — dates that some scholars think could correspond with the historical birth of Jesus. One such sequence involves the planet Jupiter, flitting back and forth across the star Regulus in Leo and then approaching Venus so that the two appeared as one.
  • Virgin birth not just for Mother Mary. Even Komodo Dragons and the Atlantic Blacktip Shark, could birth on their own with out mating. Process known as Parthenogenesis, eggs become embryos without male fertilization.
  • Christmas are for birds. People needed to do something during the Christmas holidays that didn’t involve slaughtering thousands of wild birds. Frank Chapman (1864– 1945) was the founder of the annual Christmas Bird Count, the longest running citizen science project in the world to count the birds in Christmas time.
  
And yet...

Although, science-wise, there is a strong argument against the existence of Father Christmas, there is something maths and physics has NOT taken into account.
"If we are to believe Science then there is NO Santa Claus. Or else, if we knew how he did it, then every economy on the world would be onto it. But we don’t.
The thing is Science has omitted to take into account the magic and mystery of the Great Man.
Santa's sleigh is not a time machine, nor a space ship nor a TARDIS (Doctor Who anyone?).
It is a tangible ray of hope powered by our imagination and the dreams of children all over the world.
And that’s why every year Father Christmas brings magic to all of us."


MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!!!



PS
I summed it up from other sites like Mirror.co.uk, businessinsider.com, NBCNews.com, etc.