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2006-12-14 08:43:10 · 22 answers · asked by sueglyn@btopenworld.com 1 in Science & Mathematics Physics

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the would travel C/1 =C

i have taken C from the equation E=MC^2 whe C^2 = the sped of light ^2 wher c= 186,000 ms^-1 ore 300,000 kms^-1

2006-12-16 03:45:03 · answer #1 · answered by Michael D 6 · 2 0

At the speed of light it would be possible for Santa to travel approximately 187,500 miles in one second. However, since the circumference of the Earth is approximately 49,898,000 miles, it would be feasible for Santa to get round the entire globe in 5 minutes flat. And since at any one time about half of the globe (near enough 12 hours worth give or take a daylight saving hour or two) is still in sunlight, it is unlikely Santa would travel at this speed for fear of revealing himself to children who are still awake. It is for this reason, (as well as North Pole Workers Union regulations) that he has plenty of time to stop at every house for a pie and a glass of milk.

2006-12-15 04:05:04 · answer #2 · answered by Geoffrey B 1 · 0 0

Speed of light = 3 x 10^8 m/s

So he would travel 3 x 10^8 m = 300,000,000 m

2006-12-14 14:53:15 · answer #3 · answered by Kemmy 6 · 0 0

these people are all right if you measure the second in a stationary reference frame. objects with mass can not travel at the speed of light, but theoretically he could move just slightly slower.
however, if santa was moving close to the speed of light, one second in his reference frame would be much longer in our reference frame - he would only see 1 second go by one his watch, but we would see days, years, or millennia go by

2006-12-17 07:26:20 · answer #4 · answered by Physics Major 4 · 0 0

Physics huh? You really ought to have tried English.

Oh, as the speed of light in a vacuum is taken as 299792456 metres per second, then he travels exactly this distance in a second. Of course it does depend of the refractive index of the air he travels through.
This equates to about 670,616,629.384mph. Which is why no one sees him.

2006-12-15 00:09:10 · answer #5 · answered by Vulture38 6 · 0 0

186,000 miles or 300,000 kilometres.

However most learned santaologists do not believe Santa is limited to relativistic speeds but can travel at superluminal velocities due to the clever engineering of his sleigh.

2006-12-14 23:47:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Whoa, mass-ability won't be able to "exceed the linked fee of sunshine." The so-noted as Lorenz transforms, a significant enter to relativity, make that clean. on the linked fee of sunshine, if that have been bodily attainable, mass-ability could be countless, which potential it may take a tension extra beneficial than countless to advance up that countless mass-ability to previous the linked fee of sunshine. no longer attainable. For comparable motives, time won't be able to shuttle backward in accordance to the theories of Einstein. it may take a limiteless increment of tension to get time over 0 time passage, if which could be reached, which isn't likely by using fact of ability limits. traveling into the destiny is available even with the undeniable fact that. on the part of mild velocity (c) time dilates so as that the passage of time on the traveling vehicle slows all the way down to outdoors observers. Conversely, the concentrated visitor sees time on the exterior velocity up. Such is the character of relativity. while a concentrated visitor going at close to the linked fee of sunshine returns after some months of his time, he will discover himself in all possibility centuries into his destiny, counting on how on the part of mild velocity he replaced into going. so some distance as i understand, the only subscribed to theory of something traveling quicker than the linked fee of sunshine is the universe itself. in the process the so-noted as inflationary epoch, approximately 10^-35 seconds after the great bang, area interestingly extra beneficial quicker than the linked fee of sunshine. yet understand, area isn't mass-ability; so it is not constrained by employing the linked fee of sunshine, which applies entirely to mass-ability.

2016-12-30 10:14:09 · answer #7 · answered by dobard 3 · 0 0

more than ten times around the world in one second.

2006-12-15 11:43:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

51 3/4 miles.

2006-12-14 08:45:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

186,000 miles

But, in our house, we don't believe he travels that fast. We think he's got a special stop watch that he presses and stops time. When he's all done he switches it back on again.

2006-12-14 08:45:52 · answer #10 · answered by Hello Dave 6 · 0 0

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