Direct continuation of A Solution to the Physics of Santa, Part II

As suggested in the comments section of part II:

If we weren’t assuming a single Santa, that’d probably help, too. You know, like a cloning sort of system.
–Jeff

So let’s analyze cloning. We know from Part II that Santa would require 304 seconds to deliver to a single house. Therefore, he could deliver to 284 houses in one day. In Part I, we found out Santa is delivering to 145.3 million homes. This means that if Santa were using some sort of cloning system, he’d need 511,618 clones.

I’m not sure what the Fire Marshall codes are like at the North Pole, but that’s more than the entire population of Bakersfield, California… of Santas. Not counting the original.

Maybe that accounts for every Santa you see in a mall — they’re all really a Santa, and they all deliver presents. That could explain it. But the coalition of Santas still has to be fed and sheltered without being discovered. And they have to deliver without 511,619 sleighs being seen in the night sky. (Although they’re not good enough to evade Norad.)

Even cloning doesn’t seem to solve the sheer magnitude of delivering to millions of homes in one day.

Santa Clones With Time Bubbles

What if Santa was being a full-time job? According to US dept. of Labor people in the US spend at least 1896 hours per year at work. Let’s assume that each Santa clone arms himself with a time bubble. Let’s assume that each Santa delivers presents during Christmas Eve, and uses the bubble to dilate time equal to a full-time job into one Christmas day.

(For information on time dilation, see Part II, but essentially what the bubble is doing is it’s sufficiently advanced future technology that allows time to pass slowly inside the bubble allowing years in the bubble to happen while only a day happens outside the bubble.)

In 1896 hours, a Santa clone can deliver to 22,453 houses. This would mean that it would take 6,472 Santas with time bubbles to deliver all the presents while not needing to work more than a normal human.

This is a population that is far more manageable… Santa clones with futuristic technology. The future of Santa?

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Bonus Material: Level of Time Dilation

But at this level of time dilation, would we see the sleighs?

1896 hours inside the bubble occur for every 24 hours outside the bubble. That means that time in the bubble is passing 79x faster.

So the time dilation would make all of the Santa clones move fast enough to be nearly untraceable, although we wouldn’t know of any additional phasing effects of the hypothetical technology.

Good enough for me.

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