I wasn't aware that this thread was infamous. I just think it's fun to read.

Sean Costello said:
Nah. Einstein was a bad boy as a child, but he really wanted presents, so he designed and created a teleportation device for the man in red back in 1943, and he never got coal again.

by red man do you mean santa or the Soviets (w00t Red Alert 2 )

Mr. AvenG said:


ha! are you sure? see any number divided by a smaller number makes a larger number.... 2 / 1 = 2.... 2 / .5 = 4 so if you use the smallest number '0'.... 2 / 0 = infinately large and is therefore undefined. The same is true for 1... 1/ 0 = [infinity]

so....

1/0 = [infinity] do some simple algebra and mulitply both sides by 0 to simplify the equation.... 1 = [infinity] * 0 anything times 0 = 0 so, we conclude that 1 is actually equal to 0.... 1 = 0. meaning that the probability that santa exists is therefore 0.

If you have a scientific mind, you should already realized that Santa Claus is no other but our beloved physicist -- Mr. Albert Einstein! See here: http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/6783/einsteinog0.jpg

In addition to their similar appearance, there's also the similar timeline for their existence. Albert Einstein was famous around 1910 to 1930s. Santa Claus was introduced around 1930s. Not to mention, Einstein was the only one truely understood the theory of relativity and time-space continuum -- the tool essential for Santa Claus to achieve his seemingly impossible parcels (gifts) delivery service.

Read more here, http://www.physorg.com/news2487.html
By the way here's the text of the original post, http://www.physlink.com/Fun/IsThereSanta.cfm

Jim H, you just raised the thousand years old math paradox!

1/0 not equal to infinity. 1/0 is Undefined! For floating point math, 1/0 = NULL.

0, zero, means nothing. If you combine many nothing(s), you still get nothing! You can NOT get something out of nothing! If you wallet is empty, you can NOT pay for your merchandise. You can't pay nothing to buy something. Get it?

Now think of it this way, division means asking the question -- how many of this thing (denominator) can be combined to form that thing (numerator)? For example, 6 Liters / 3 Liters = 2, meaning you can combine two 3 Liters, say water, to get 6 Liters of water. Make sense. But 6 Liters / 0 Liter does not make any sense, because you can NOT get 6 Liters of water out of no water at all! First law of thermodynamics -- matters can not be created nor destroyed. You can't get water out of nothing! Understand?

0/0 is also undefined. Because the question -- how many nothing(s) can be combined to form nothing, does NOT make sense at all. Nothing is not countable! Can you count how many nothing you have? That's why 0, sometimes is not considered a number at all. It's a symbol for nothing -- an ideal state, that the something in question does not exist at all! We live in a discrete and finite world, so "absolutely nothing" is near impossible to achieve. There is always something in this world, "nothing" will simply disappears, it only gets converted to something else. A black hole is not a nothing, it's simply something big turned into something infinitesimally small.

1/x = infinity, where lim x -> 0. Now this statement is true. See x never equals zero, it only approaches zero.

Clear now?

Harry K. said:

Santa? Or the devil Himself!
http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/4251/sasfffffffffffffffgk4.jpg

LOL, Sean, nice art work.

What are you talking about? Thats the American way GET EVERYTHING YOU WANT RIGHT NOW AND PAY ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

(for 90 days anyway 7.99% variable APR will apply, 7.99% rate based on prime rate + 1.24%... prime rate taken from the last issue of previous months wall street journal. offer contingent on approval, applicant must meet minimum score on credit check. Some fees may apply, not all applicants will qualify. Offer limited to continental United States only, must be legal US resident or US citizen to qualify.)

Well said, or you can steal it, either or.

damn who brought this topic up?

EiD_Sir_Airman01 said:

Me, although by looking through the posts you could have easily figured that out.

Your comment could convey the message that you don't approve of this topic being brought back to the top (maybe on account of it being 3 years old). The case could be made that you brought this topic back up by making a new post, thus perpetuating the thread by keeping it at the top of the latest topics list.

He is created from a pagon ritual or something, to manipulate the true meaning of "Christ"mass. But I still plaster his pictures all over the house

The person who wrote this blog copied it from The University of Queensland... if someonoe was to tell on you, you would be in trouble. And when it says Queen Elizabeth it didn't mean the queen it meant the ship.

Lol you ruined the fun of it. You should have posted on december

Well if there is no Santa then how come Grandma got run over by a Riendeer coming on Christmas Eve.

I should know he exists. I always caught him sneaking into my mum's bedroom when i
was a kid!

Bob Sanders said:


google the first line:

1. No known species of reindeer that can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not completely rule out flying reindeer

i was copied from EVERYWHERE!

<- my ass

I stopped believing in a god(s) before I stopped believing in Santa Claus.

I'm sure you all have heard about Saint Nicholas. The story of Santa Claus is mythology driven from the Saint Nicholas, non-fiction story. Every fiction story is based on shreds of non-fiction stories.