University of Central Florida theoretical physics professor Costas Efthimiou and graduate student Sohang Gandhi proved that certain behavior attributed to vampires is impossible. Their paper “Ghosts, Vampires and Zombies: Cinema Fiction vs. Physics Reality,†they explore vampires' behavior as portrayed in movies. Take Blade. In the 1998 vampire flick, the fanged night-dwellers feed on the blood of humans, who, once bitten, turn into vampires themselves. Impossible, say the scientists - and they use a basic math principle, geometric progression, to prove it. -- But the joke is on them. Blade is just a movie and in real life feeding doesn't create progeny... http://www.forbes.com/digitalentertainment/2006/10/30/science-ghosts-vampires-tech_media_cx_ee_1031papers.html
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