Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Our universe harbors no more than 512 vampires

I’d meant to blog this a long time ago, what with one thing or another getting in the way, I finally got around to it…

In his blog, Clive Thompson reports on an article entitled “Ghosts, Vampires and Zombies: Cinema Fiction vs Physics Reality” written by C.J. Efthimiou and S. Gandhi, and accessible online at the Cornell University Library.

To make a long story short, these physicists prove that (1) vampires don't exist, because if they did, we would have been overrun by them at least 200 years ago; and (2) in a steady-state "Buffy universe," there would be no more than 512 vampires.

Clive’s writeup is a very enjoyable read; take the time to look at his blog.

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