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Agnostica
<b>Agnostica: For anyone who has ever calculated Santa's airspeed.</b>

Some claim Agnostica is a holiday that was created by a character, King Luca, in Darren Bleuel's comic [[Nukees]], however there is no proof that this is the case and there is evidence that the holiday was created else where or that different traditions arose simultaneously.   The following information only pertains to the holiday according the the comic tradition.  The comic origins of Agnostica as told by King Luca himself can be read [http://www.nukees.com/d/19991213.html here].

==When is Agnostica?==
<i>On December 14, 1900, Max Planck presented experimental results in front of the German Physical Society and announced that they could best be explained if energy exists in discrete packets, which he called "quanta." Thus, the field of Quantum Physics was born. December 14 is the start of the Agnostica Holiday.</i> --[http://www.agnostica.com Agnostica.com]

As the tradition holds, Agnostica begins on December 14, and continues for an indeterminate amount of time, as dictated by [[Uncertainty_principle|Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle]]. So the holiday can last a few minutes or several weeks if necessary.⏎
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==How is it celebrated?==
Traditionally a party is thrown where the attendees dress up as their favorite scientist of yore and have a good time.  Other items necessary for an authentic Agnostica party include:
*Glögi (see [[mulled wine]] or [[glogg]])
*A Schrödinger Box (a large box that no one is allowed to open, representative of the famous experiment [[Schrödinger's cat]])
*Mobius Chains (see [[Möbius strip]]s)
*Mystery Punch
*A Random Bag of Fun

==Random Bag of Fun==
The random bag of fun is a bag of simple, inexpensive, gifts. Everyone participating in the gift exchange gets to reach into the bag and blindly pick out a gift.

General guidlines for gifts:
*inexpensive, about $10-$20
*non-perishable (no food, drinks, pets, etc.)
*something you might like yourself
*simple
*educational (preferably)

In 2004, [[Darren Bleuel]] (author of the [[webcomic]] [[Nukees]] and creator of Agnostica) hosted a worldwide Random Bag of Fun, encouraging readers to mail in either gifts (meeting the above criteria) or else a donation of twenty dollars, so that they could then be mailed a random gift back.  About twenty-five people participated.

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[[Category:Fictional holidays]]