Pirate!

[unixronin]

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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I'm pretty sure Gabby (3 yo) thinks I'm full of shit about this whole thing where Santa knows if she's asleep or not, but she worked out her version of Pascal's Wager pretty damned quick this evening and yelled at me to stop talking to her. 'I'm supposed to be sleeping, Daddy! BE QUIET!'

On the upside, she is asleep.

That does remind me, tho, that I need to go in and eat the cookies (and brownies...Gabby's respect for Santa is great...) and drink the milk that she left out. It would not do to have Santa clearly have come and left presents, but have forgotten to have a snack while he's here.