{Doubling Life Cycles [continued]}[5th January 1989]

[Redbook6:83)][19890105:1022e]{Doubling Life Cycles [continued]}[5th January 1989]

19890105.1022

[continued]

What we seem to see* is

either

a ‘drag’ effect (for most natural lives – I am not sure that a fatal heart attack at 60 brought on by stress and other life style factors really counts as natural rather than accidental cause of death) – stretching the ruling pattern (which is then cut off early);

or

an ‘accelerator’ effect (perhaps brought on by stress and speed of living) bringing everything forward:

eg taking an average of (say) 72 years:

	‘Drag’ Effect (Stretching)	Doubling Pattern	‘Accelerator’ effect (Shrinking)
	0	0	0
	1+	1	½+
	2¼	2	1+
	4½	4	2¼
	9	8	4½
	18	16	9
	36	32	18
c. Average	72	64	36
‘Maximum’	144	128	72	c. Average
		Max

Not even the maximum should be regarded as necessarily a precise absolute maximum.

On the whole the idea of stresses (medical and behavioural) bringing forward the theoretical maximum towards (and beyond) the average in individual cases is quite attractive. However, I am not sure (studies of literary lives notwithstanding)** that I want to commit myself to a corresponding bringing-forward of all lesser cycles.

*[See last previous entry]

**ref [[Redbook6:44)][19881129:0053]{Literary Circles [continued (4)]}[29th November 1988],] 44ff

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