10 Science Facts That Will Ruin Your Favourite Sci-Fi Movies
3. Humans Make Bad Batteries - The Matrix
This one will require a little maths, so excuse the number crunching, but it's not hard to get a hang on.
When Neo learns the awful reality/ blatantly obvious metaphor behind his existence near the beginning of the Wackowski Sisters' classic sci-fi thriller The Matrix, he's informed that the machines keep humans in suspended animation in order to use them as living batteries to fuel their endeavours.
Think about that for a quick second.
If the machines have to keep humans alive to use their energy, that process costs the machines energy. If humans can't even maintain their own existence in suspended animation, how is keeping them alive and harvesting their energy costing less energy than the energy they’re producing?
Told you it was complicated.
Okay, say you have an electric exercise bike and you produce ten units of energy using it for an hour, but it requires fifty energy units to run for an hour. Would this be a functional way to run a universe?