Talk:Vampire/@comment-173.26.91.174-20121020234729/@comment-135271-20121103230548

Actually, I HAVE read all the books, and see half the movies. And again, her vampires don't follow science and make no sense. At all. Allow me to explain:

Meyerpires do not enter the sunlight because it causes their skin to sparkle like diamonds. This is apparently because the venom turns each cell into "a single facet" of a "crystal-like substance". Of course, crystals are rigid, meaning that the transformation would make it impossible for the vampires to move without shattering into little piles of sparkly fairy dust. Meyer claims that this works because a "venom-like substance" lubricates the cells. However, if each cell is a "facet," that would imply they are connected. If each cell is an individual crystal, Meyerpires would just be shiny, because cells are way too small for the human eye to see the individual sparkles. Also, if sunlight makes Meyerpires glitter, so should flourescent light and incandescent light. They should sparkle even under cloud cover. In traditional vampire lore the effect is mystical, and so the restriction to sunlight is justified, but sunlight is not fundamentally different from other very bright light. It should also be noted that such crystal structures can be found in plasma screen TVs, video game screens, and cell phones, as well as being the same lipid structure that makes soap and detergent.

Let's move on to heat, shall we? The vampires are as cold as ice, regardless of the temperature of things around them. There is no reason for this: While as corpses they would not be generating heat, the idea that they are somehow absorbing ridiculous amounts of energy without their temperature rising at all violates basic physics, specifically the Law of Conservation of Energy (This law is only violated in nuclear explosions, and is explained with Einstein's famous equation E = mc^2, explaining that small amounts of mass are converted into large amounts of energy and vice versa. And the vampires are not creating tiny nuclear explosions inside themselves, last we checked). Logically, long-term exposure to heat would bring their body heat to room temperature, at least. For instance, Bella can sleep with Edward for several hours, and none of her heat will be transferred to his body. It's not that vampires produce no body heat: They seem to be rather akin to refrigerators.

Want me to explain why vampire sex doesn't work?