![]() ![]() ![]() Relying on the research of an eminent list of scholars from around the world, he endeavours to enrich our understanding of everything associated with Yuletide, providing genuine insights as well as fanciful speculation. However, Highfield’s approach to the science of Christmas is quite the opposite. ![]() ![]() In fact, he proudly admits to using this argument to disprove the existence of Santa to a six-year-old child. Because we never hear this sonic boom, Dawkins claims that Santa does not exist. Hence, as he accelerates to and from each house, his sleigh would break the sound barrier, thereby generating a tremendous shock wave and a sonic boom. In his book Unweaving the Rainbow, he explains that Santa would have to travel faster than the speed of sound to visit all the children in the world in a single night. Indeed this is possible, as demonstrated by British scientist Richard Dawkins. Many might feel that scientific analysis of festive phenomena would destroy the spirit of Christmas. He has now gathered together these stories in a delightful compendium of seasonal science. The Physics of Christmas in America)Įach year, science journalist Roger Highfield searches for stories with a Christmas angle the evolutionary origin of gift giving, the mystery of the Star of Bethlehem, how reindeer fly, cloned Christmas trees, and anything else that might add a festive flavour to his weekly column in London’s Daily Telegraph newspaper. ![]()
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