We present to your attention a selection of scientific and near -scientific New Year's news

In every house - faster than the speed of light

Scientists calculated that due to the time difference in different parts of the Earth, Santa Claus has 31 hours to visit at least 100 million families.

Thus, he must look at 896 houses every second! To do this, he needs to move at a speed of 1655 kilometers per second, which is 5000 times higher than the sound speed. It is also known that the weight of the sled, loaded with gifts (even if every child is a good old man gives a small Lego designer or chocolate) is 321 tons. The weight of Santa Claus himself is unknown to science. Physics around the world cannot yet recreate such a quick and powerful cart of Santa Claus. Perhaps that the whole thing is in his deer?

In the morning, after Christmas, Finnish scientists were able to find a village on one of the stoves in Lapland of the Hair deeds and immediately began work on the decoding of its genome. Researchers hope that in the next few years it will be possible to clone the deer Santa Claus and solve the riddle of his miracle.

Nano Santa Claus

Once, the writer Nikolai Leskov heard the story of how the English masters packed a steel flea, and the Tula craftsmen managed to poke it. So, in 1881, and a fairy tale appeared about the Tula Master Levsha. More than a hundred years have passed, and the Tula nanotechnologists managed to make the figure of the youngest Santa Claus in the world. Miniature sled are lucky for three fleas. The horseshoes of the fleas melodically tap the wilted melody from childhood: "A Christmas tree was born in the forest."

New Year's gift to voters

Thanks to the initiative of deputies of the local Legislative Assembly, every resident of N-SK will be able to celebrate the New Year at the richly set table. Advanced domestic technologies made it possible to make a three -dimensional hologram with the image of a festive table in size 240 by 80 centimeters. Such a hologram will receive as a gift all the poor inhabitants of the city. It is interesting that the creators made sure that there was a place left on the hologram where you can put a bottle of vodka, salted cucumbers, a jar of bulls in a tomato and a jar of sprot. A special device also sprays the aromas of all that food that is depicted on a hologram to recreate the atmosphere of the New Year's banquet.

Russians appreciated the role of Santa Claus

Researchers from the Center for Public Doubt in December 2008 conducted an All -Russian telephone survey, in which over 1,500 respondents took part. According to its results, 36% of Russians said that they believe in Santa Claus, 34% replied that they did not believe in fairy tales for a long time, and 28% could not give a certain answer. Finally, 3% of respondents decided that they were played out and hung up. At the request of sociologists, 30% of Russians replied: “Great Ustyug”, 25% said “Lapland”, 20% answered “in the forest”, 15% called Moscow, and 10% - the North Pole.

How will faith in Santa Claus change in the next 5-10 years in the light of an impending crisis? A significant part of Russians (48%) believes that hopes for the help of a fabulous and kind old man will increase, the opposite point of view - that faith in the anticipation of a miracle will come to naught - only 5%adheres to. Part of the respondents (14%) said that she did not expect any changes. Finally, every third (33%) was difficult to make a forecast. What do those Russians who believe in Santa Claus expect as a gift? 30% hope for a new car, 25%-for a new LCD TV, 18% expect a laptop, 15%-a new mobile phone model, and another 12% will be happy and a box of chocolate sweets.

New fur coat of Santa Claus

Scientists from Montenegrin invented a new lightweight version of the fur coat for Santa Claus. As you know, the classic Santa should be dressed in a long red fur coat, ankle or shin. The New Year's “coat” should be embroidered with silver, stars, crosses and other traditional Russian ornaments and trimmed with white fluff or fur. Thanks to the use of special Nanovolonok, the fur coat of Santa Claus now weighs not 5 kg, as before, but only 2 kg 100 grams.

Santa Klaus and Suprrun Theory

How can real Santa Klaus guarantee that all obedient children will receive their gifts? As you know, it can easily go down the chimney with a fire burning below. As scientists from Lapland found out, Santa is surrounded by ion protection, consisting of charged particles held together by a magnetic field. This defense completely hides Santa and his sled, and even taking the sled of the northern deer. In addition, Santa Claus does not have to remain within the limits of our usual four dimensions (recall that time is the fourth dimension): after all, such a fantastic character may well operate the capabilities provided, for example, 11 dimensions. These additional dimensions will probably make it possible to easily facilitate the collection and delivery of gifts directly from the warehouse at the North Pole. The theory of superstrugs that appeared relatively recently and has already become extremely popular and operates with 26 dimensions, which, of course, with even greater fidelity will facilitate Santa his life.

For more information on the scientific problems of Santa Claus, see L. Silverberg's comic report http://www.mae.ncsu.edu/homepage/silverberg/santa/santa.html