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.
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But the joke is on them. Blade is just a movie and in real life feeding doesn't create progeny...