Pirate ROCKS.
Pirate, who is 7, was staying that she wanted to stay up and see Santa. I told her that she couldn't, because he was unobservable. Then I jokingly suggested that it was a quantum effect. Then, having started that, she wouldn't let it rest until I explained Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, wave-particle duality, the double slit experiment, quantum superposition, and quantum decoherence.
"Aha!", said Pirate. "Now I know how Santa gets to every house in the world on one night. He's in a superposition, and he visits all of them at once and puts presents under every tree at once!"
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