Mathematicians debunk famous film and TV scenes

MailOnline reveals seven times mathematicians have debunked iconic moments in cinema and TV history.

They show how Ross Geller could have got the sofa upstairs, or Jack Traven's bus could not have jumped the gap in the freeway, or Keanu Reeves dodged that bullet, or Kate Winslet could moved over to let Leonardo DiCaprio fit on the door.

Maths-Whizz director Ray Douse says the film was technically wrong to ask what was the limit of the equation because it wasn't an equation on the screen, it was an expression.

Cady's answer was correct, however, because whether x approaches 0 from a positive or a negative number, the expression resolves into either positive or negative infinity, and infinity has no limits.

The existence of the Higgs boson - sometimes nicknamed the God Particle - was first predicted by Peter Higgs in 1964.

Jack would not have survived the bus jump in The Matrix.

Mathematicians calculated that the gap they had to jump was 50 feet in length (15 m), while the speedometer showed they were travelling at about 67 mph (108 kph) An object's time falling is independent of its horizontal velocity, so in order to jump any distance the bus is assumed to have launched at a slight incline.

This meant it would have likely fallen through the gap before it reached the other side, and exploded.