If vampires—corpses that rise up to suck the blood of the living—sound biologically implausible to you, you’re not alone. They exist purely in legend, as virtually all scientists agree.
But for any vampire believers undissuaded por biological facts, a professor has come up with a second proof of their unreality, using math.
If vampiros ever existed in the forms in which cine and libros portray them, they would have quickly wiped out humanity long ago, according to physics professor Costas Efthimiou of the universidad of Central Florida in Orlando, Fla.
popular lore passed down through centuries holds that vampire victims become vampiros them selves, and launch their own blood-hunts on hapless humans.
To rule out vampires, Efthimiou relied on a basic principle known as geometric progression.
“If vampiros truly feed with even a tiny fraction of the frequency that they are depicted to in the cine and folklore, then the human race would have been wiped out quite quickly after the first vampire appeared,” Efthimiou and a graduate student colleague wrote in a paper publicado on line.
Efthimiou supposed that the first vampire arose Jan. 1, 1600, around the beginning of a century during which some of the first important modern writings on vampiros appeared. There searchers estimated the global population at that time, based on historical records, as 537 million.
Assuming that the vampire fed once a mes and the victim turned into a vampire, there would be two vampiros on Feb.1, four the siguiente month, and eight the mes after that. All humans would be vampiros with in 2½ years. “Humans can not survive under these conditions, even if our population were doubling each month,” which is well beyond human capacities, Efthimiou said.
But why would one vampire make every mes a new vampire, when he can easily drink his hole blood,
and human would die?
But for any vampire believers undissuaded por biological facts, a professor has come up with a second proof of their unreality, using math.
If vampiros ever existed in the forms in which cine and libros portray them, they would have quickly wiped out humanity long ago, according to physics professor Costas Efthimiou of the universidad of Central Florida in Orlando, Fla.
popular lore passed down through centuries holds that vampire victims become vampiros them selves, and launch their own blood-hunts on hapless humans.
To rule out vampires, Efthimiou relied on a basic principle known as geometric progression.
“If vampiros truly feed with even a tiny fraction of the frequency that they are depicted to in the cine and folklore, then the human race would have been wiped out quite quickly after the first vampire appeared,” Efthimiou and a graduate student colleague wrote in a paper publicado on line.
Efthimiou supposed that the first vampire arose Jan. 1, 1600, around the beginning of a century during which some of the first important modern writings on vampiros appeared. There searchers estimated the global population at that time, based on historical records, as 537 million.
Assuming that the vampire fed once a mes and the victim turned into a vampire, there would be two vampiros on Feb.1, four the siguiente month, and eight the mes after that. All humans would be vampiros with in 2½ years. “Humans can not survive under these conditions, even if our population were doubling each month,” which is well beyond human capacities, Efthimiou said.
But why would one vampire make every mes a new vampire, when he can easily drink his hole blood,
and human would die?
Other lives, always tempted to trade
Will they hate me for all the choices I made
Will they stop when they see me again
I can’t stop now I know who I am
Now I’m all yours, I’m not afraid
And you’re all mine, say what they may
And all your amor I’ll take to the grave
And all my life starts now
Tear me down, they can’t take tu out of my thoughts
Under every scar there’s a battle I’ve lost
Will they stop when they see us again
I can’t stop now I know who I am
Now I’m all yours, I’m not afraid
And you’re all mine, say what they may
And all your amor I’ll take to the grave
And all my life starts
I’m all yours, I’m not afraid
And you’re all mine, say what they may
And all your amor I’ll take to the grave
And all my life starts
Starts now
Will they hate me for all the choices I made
Will they stop when they see me again
I can’t stop now I know who I am
Now I’m all yours, I’m not afraid
And you’re all mine, say what they may
And all your amor I’ll take to the grave
And all my life starts now
Tear me down, they can’t take tu out of my thoughts
Under every scar there’s a battle I’ve lost
Will they stop when they see us again
I can’t stop now I know who I am
Now I’m all yours, I’m not afraid
And you’re all mine, say what they may
And all your amor I’ll take to the grave
And all my life starts
I’m all yours, I’m not afraid
And you’re all mine, say what they may
And all your amor I’ll take to the grave
And all my life starts
Starts now
Your lips are nettles
Your tongue is wine
Your laughter’s liquid
But your body’s pine
tu amor all sailors
But hate the beach
tu say come touch me
But you’re always out of reach
In the dark tu tell me of a flower
That only blooms in the violeta hour
Your arms are lovely
Yellow and rose
Your back’s a meadow
Covered in snow
Your thighs are thistles
And hot-house grapes
tu breathe your sweet breath
And have me wait
In the dark tu tell me of a flower
That only blooms in the violeta hour
I turn the lights out
I clean the sheets
tu change the station
Turned up the heat
And now you’re sitting
Upon your chair
You’ve got me enredados up
Inside your beautiful black hair
In the dark tu tell me of a flower
That only blooms in the violeta hour
In the dark tu tell me of a flower
That only blooms in the violeta hour
Your tongue is wine
Your laughter’s liquid
But your body’s pine
tu amor all sailors
But hate the beach
tu say come touch me
But you’re always out of reach
In the dark tu tell me of a flower
That only blooms in the violeta hour
Your arms are lovely
Yellow and rose
Your back’s a meadow
Covered in snow
Your thighs are thistles
And hot-house grapes
tu breathe your sweet breath
And have me wait
In the dark tu tell me of a flower
That only blooms in the violeta hour
I turn the lights out
I clean the sheets
tu change the station
Turned up the heat
And now you’re sitting
Upon your chair
You’ve got me enredados up
Inside your beautiful black hair
In the dark tu tell me of a flower
That only blooms in the violeta hour
In the dark tu tell me of a flower
That only blooms in the violeta hour
I was a quick wet boy
Diving too deep for coins
All of your calle light eyes
Wide on my plastic toys
Then when the cops closed the fair
I cut my long baby hair
estola me a dog-eared map
And called for tu everywhere
Have I found you
Flightless bird, jealous, weeping
o lost you
American mouth
Big pill looming
Now I’m a fat house cat
Nursing my sore blunt tongue
Watching the warm poison rats
Curl through the wide fence cracks
Pissing on magazine photos
Those fishing lures thrown in the cold and clean
Blood of Christ mountain streams
Have I found you
Flightless bird, grounding, bleeding
o lost you
American mouth
Big pill stuck going down
Diving too deep for coins
All of your calle light eyes
Wide on my plastic toys
Then when the cops closed the fair
I cut my long baby hair
estola me a dog-eared map
And called for tu everywhere
Have I found you
Flightless bird, jealous, weeping
o lost you
American mouth
Big pill looming
Now I’m a fat house cat
Nursing my sore blunt tongue
Watching the warm poison rats
Curl through the wide fence cracks
Pissing on magazine photos
Those fishing lures thrown in the cold and clean
Blood of Christ mountain streams
Have I found you
Flightless bird, grounding, bleeding
o lost you
American mouth
Big pill stuck going down
Should never think
What’s in your heart
What’s in our home
And so I won’t
And you’ll learn to hate me
Still call me baby
Oh, love
So call me por my name
And save your soul
Save your soul
Before you’re too far gone
Before nothing can be done
Try to decide when
She’ll lie in the end
Ain’t got no fight in me
In this whole damn world
Tell tu to hold off
Choose to hold on
It’s one thing that I’ve known
Once I put my capa on
Coming out in this all wrong, ooh
She’s standing outside holding me
Saying oh please
I’m in love
I’m in love
Girl save your soul, ooh
Save your soul
Before you’re too far gone
And before nothing can be done
‘Cause without me
tu got it all
So hold on
Without me tu got it all
Hold on
Without me tu got it all
Without me tu got it all
So hold on
Without me tu got it all
So hold on
Without me tu got it all
So hold on
What’s in your heart
What’s in our home
And so I won’t
And you’ll learn to hate me
Still call me baby
Oh, love
So call me por my name
And save your soul
Save your soul
Before you’re too far gone
Before nothing can be done
Try to decide when
She’ll lie in the end
Ain’t got no fight in me
In this whole damn world
Tell tu to hold off
Choose to hold on
It’s one thing that I’ve known
Once I put my capa on
Coming out in this all wrong, ooh
She’s standing outside holding me
Saying oh please
I’m in love
I’m in love
Girl save your soul, ooh
Save your soul
Before you’re too far gone
And before nothing can be done
‘Cause without me
tu got it all
So hold on
Without me tu got it all
Hold on
Without me tu got it all
Without me tu got it all
So hold on
Without me tu got it all
So hold on
Without me tu got it all
So hold on