• Title of article

    Phenomenological theory of mortality and aginge

  • Author/Authors

    Mark Ya. Azbel’، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 1998
  • Pages
    10
  • From page
    472
  • To page
    481
  • Abstract
    There are many theories of mortality, but no consensus even on the basic problem: is it genetically determined? In a general case, the problem is mathematically unsolvable. Yet, in the case of mortality, a physical approach yields its universal law. The law predicts, e.g., that mortality and senescence may decrease with age. Experiments verify it. I suggest experiments, which are supposed to produce genetic Methuselas, who live, e.g., over 20η (η is the mean life span), but whose biological age is less than η/2. If the universal mortality law is convincingly proven, it may lead to a quantitative model and theory of mortality and aging.
  • Journal title
    Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
  • Serial Year
    1998
  • Journal title
    Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
  • Record number

    865107