Undead Vampires, ranging from
Dracula, created by Bram Stoker, to the more urbane Lestat, created by Anne
Rice, all share two basic characteristics. They are dead, and they need to drink
blood from mortals to preserve their existence. They also share common traits
with mortals. They stand, talk, move, run, and carry out
all the essential physical
activities.
How do vampires carry out their active physical existences? Humans, mortals, have complex biological systems that provide energy to the muscles, tendons, bones, that enable us to be physically active. Vampires are dead: their hearts don't beat; their lungs don't breathe; and their former biological energy producing systems are no longer functioning. Where do their muscles get energy? Dr. Katherine Ramsland wrote an entire book, The Science of Vampires, speculating about how vampires function and think. Dr. Ramsland could only speculate, because neither she nor anyone else has examined a "real undead vampire."
In the movies and in novels, vampires share blood with humans to turn them into vampires. How is this possible? Without hearts that beat, vampire are cold to the touch. In fiction, Vampires are usually impervious to the cold. If vampires are cold-blooded creatures and they are outside in freezing temperatures, their blood would thicken. To the best of the author's knowledge, no writer or movie director has ever addressed this issue. It's not a matter of unanswerable questions as much as it is an illogical possibility.
How do vampires carry out their active physical existences? Humans, mortals, have complex biological systems that provide energy to the muscles, tendons, bones, that enable us to be physically active. Vampires are dead: their hearts don't beat; their lungs don't breathe; and their former biological energy producing systems are no longer functioning. Where do their muscles get energy? Dr. Katherine Ramsland wrote an entire book, The Science of Vampires, speculating about how vampires function and think. Dr. Ramsland could only speculate, because neither she nor anyone else has examined a "real undead vampire."
In the movies and in novels, vampires share blood with humans to turn them into vampires. How is this possible? Without hearts that beat, vampire are cold to the touch. In fiction, Vampires are usually impervious to the cold. If vampires are cold-blooded creatures and they are outside in freezing temperatures, their blood would thicken. To the best of the author's knowledge, no writer or movie director has ever addressed this issue. It's not a matter of unanswerable questions as much as it is an illogical possibility.
We've also seen, or read about, vampires turning into some dust or smoke. Transforming
matter from one form, a solid, into another form, gaseous, requires heat or a specific
chemical process. Except for a nuclear explosion, modern science has no means
by which it can almost instantaneously turn a solid object into a gaseous one.
Science has no explanation for the existence and activities of vampires. The
illogical and unscientific existence of vampires are rarely if ever addressed
in the novels or movies. Vampires came to life not by magic, or mystery, or
even the supernatural, but with the pen and ink of writers and producers of
movies. The reader, or viewer, supports the mysterious existence of vampires
with more than a little suspension of disbelief. With the current popularity of
vampire books, movies, and television shows, readers and viewers probably have
little if any interest about science and the impossibility of vampires.
