Wolfram Demonstrations Project

13,000+ Open Interactive Demonstrations
Powered by Notebook Technology »

Negligible Senescence Scenario

Initializing live version
Download to Desktop

Requires a Wolfram Notebook System

Interact on desktop, mobile and cloud with the free Wolfram Player or other Wolfram Language products.

The controversial age research visionary Aubrey de Gray claims that average life expectancy can be increased rapidly to about 5000 years. The upper graph shows percentages of people alive at different ages. The lower graph represents survivor rates at different ages.

[more]

Select an expected life span to obtain a scenario that assumes random variations of survival rates around its required average survival rate. The ragged blue line in the lower graph gives those random survivor rates. The green leaf-shaped part in the upper graph illustrates the different expectancies obtained by sorting the random survival rates differently. The red area shows that women tend to live longer.

[less]

Contributed by: Michael Schreiber (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA

Snapshots

Details

The underlying data comes from the U.S. 2002 standard life table. For more information see: Aubrey de Gray.

Embed Code

Take advantage of the Wolfram Notebook Emebedder for the recommended user experience.

Related Demonstrations More by Author
Browse all topics
Feedback (field required)
Email (field required) Name
Occupation Organization
Note: Your message & contact information may be shared with the author of any specific Demonstration for which you give feedback.
Send