What? Vampires don’t exist?
Costas Efthimiou is bursting our bubble here. He’s gone through and poked holes in some of our favourite Halloween monsters, ghosts, zombies, and vampires. He looks at the physics of ghosts being able to walk on flours and pass through walls (no can do he says … but wait what if they aren’t really touching anything just in a different dimensional plane, huh?). Zombies in Hati just being the victims of a neurotoxin (okay I knew that one … Anthro does come in handy). Vampires, if they existed, we’d all be one (I guess he hasn’t seen Blade movies where there are familiars and that according to legends vampires don’t turn all their victims in the undead).
From the Wired story:
Efthimiou takes out the calculator to prove that if a vampire sucked one person’s blood each month — turning each victim into an equally hungry vampire — after a couple of years there would be no people left, just vampires. He started his calculations with just one vampire and 537 million humans on Jan. 1, 1600 and shows that the human population would be down to zero by July 1602.
Don’t call him a spoil-sport though with the kids coming to the door:
And Halloween? Both physicists will suspend disbelief when vampires, ghosts and zombies come to their doors.
"I give them candy and I feign fright," Park said. "They enjoy it, what the hell. The problem is the ones that never get over it."
Ah well. Now what about werewolves?
Tags: Halloween, vampires, ghosts, zombies
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