Scientists prove that Miley Cyrus could not “come in like a wrecking ball”.
Scientists don’t get out much. So it is not entirely surprising that they seized the opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge of physics by studying – at length – the video of a scantily/barely clad Miley Cyrus swinging from a wrecking ball merely to prove that she could not, in fact, come in like one.
The University of Leicester has concluded that Miley Cyrus, the singer would be unable to ‘come in like a wrecking ball’ without sustaining ‘significant injury’.
David McDonagh, a student at the Centre of Interdisciplinary Science, found that Cyrus would be unable to gather sufficient momentum to have ‘impacted’ on either ‘love, or the walls of someone’s house’, as the song suggests.
McDonagh concludes that Cyrus would need to be travelling at around 316 mph to demolish a wall – meaning she would need to be propelled by an outside force.
“Based on these findings, it is clear that a human being cannot possess the characteristics of a wrecking ball without sustaining significant injury, and other objects should be sought as an analogy,” he concluded.
Can’t help thinking he’d be great company at a dinner party!
Read more here, or, better still, take another look at our exclusive Wrecking Ball spoof below:
