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 Von biological facts, a professor has come up with a sec­ond proof of their unreality, using math.

If Vampire ever existed in the forms in which Filme and Bücher portray them, they would have quickly wiped out humanity long ago, ac­cording to physics professor Cos­tas Efthimiou of the universität of Central Florida in Orlando, Fla.
beliebt lore passed down through centuries holds that vampire vic­tims become Vampire 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 Vampire truly feed with even a tiny fraction of the frequency that they are depicted to in the Filme 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 gepostet 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 Vampire appeared. There searchers estimated the global population at that time, based on historical records, as 537 million.

Assuming that the vampire fed once a Monat and the victim turned in­to a vampire, there would be two Vampire on Feb.1, four the Weiter month, and eight the Monat after that. All humans would be Vampire 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 Monat a new vampire, when he can easily drink his hole blood,
and human would die?