More boring Appendix (sorry to be technical in these exciting times but I need to calm down as I fear disappointment in Egypt) – my own derivations of Gott’s law based on the great Mandelbrot’s fractals.
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I wrote that a technology (book, cultural practice, religion) or any nonpresishable item is likely to increase in life expectancy upon mere aging –the opposite of perishable variables, like, say, humans.