Milestones of a human lifetime on a log scale

[bob012345]

In another thread the concept of how many seconds in a year came up and it made me think of putting milestones of a human lifetime on a log scale. Units are seconds. Please feel free to amend or change or just make it better. Maybe an actual plot? What strikes me is most of life is in the last decade and a half from 10^8 to about 3x10^9.

Undefined	Birth
10^0	First breath
10^1	First cry
10^2	First sleep
10^3	First meal
10^4	First ...
10^5	eat, sleep....
10^6	eat, sleep...
10^7	crawl, walk, talk
10^8	kid, teen, college, job, marriage
10^9	grow old, die

 

[berkeman]

Too many words. A picture (a log plot) is worth 10^3 words...

 

[bob012345]

Too many words. A picture (a log plot) is worth 10^3 words...

This is more a scale than a plot but yes it could be made with little icons representing the stages of life on a real log scale but that's a lot of work and I am not a graphics designer. It was more the idea than the implementation. Also, I looked but did not find a convenient log plotter online.

 

[bob012345]

Or it could just be more like this;

 

[PeroK]

Perhaps changes take place over each period of fifteen years?

0-15: childhood
15-30 young adulthood
30-45 maturity
45-60 middle age
60-75 early old age
75-90 old age
90+ extreme old age

 

[bob012345]

Perhaps changes take place over each period of fifteen years?

0-15: childhood
15-30 young adulthood
30-45 maturity
45-60 middle age
60-75 early old age
75-90 old age
90+ extreme old age

It was meant in the spirit of Phil Morrison's Powers of Ten but over time not distance.

 

[Algr]

Or it could just be more like this;

This is how most people think of history. Fire is the center of time.

 

[Vanadium 50]

Doesn't this work in reverse as well? Last meal, last breath, last heartbeat?

And even in the middle? First meal today, first breath today, first heartbeat today.

Deep, man, deep.

 

[bob012345]

Doesn't this work in reverse as well? Last meal, last breath, last heartbeat?

And even in the middle? First meal today, first breath today, first heartbeat today.

Deep, man, deep.

Yes, but where do I put that on the scale?

Also, I could add a section from conception to birth.

 

[topsquark]

Or it could just be more like this;

View attachment 318268

You forgot my birthday!

Oh, no. Wait. The Big Bang is on there.

No worries.

-Dan

 

[BillTre]

Also, I could add a section from conception to birth.

In this time period are some of the most important milestones in one's life.
So say several biologists.

• fertilization
• gastrulation
• body axis formation
• etc.

 

[PeroK]

In this time period are some of the most important milestones in one's life.
So say several biologists.

• fertilization
• gastrulation
• body axis formation
• etc.

Not covered in many biographies.

 

[DaveC426913]

Too many words. A picture (a log plot) is worth 10^3 words...

 

[Vanadium 50]

Shouldn't that be on a log plot?

 

[bob012345]

View attachment 318318

Need a Dirac Delta Function normalized to 1000 at $x=1$.

 

[BillTre]

Not covered in many biographies.

Should be!

 

[bob012345]

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Nice, but seeing as how a partial picture may not contain enough useful information and multiple pictures just lead to confusion, I think it goes like *this;

* function courtesy of prof. P.A.M. Dirac;

$Words(pics)=\frac{1}{a\sqrt{\pi}}e^{-\left(\frac{\operatorname{abs}\left(pics-1\right)}{a}\right)^{2}}\left\{pics≥0, a=0.000565\right\}$

 

[DaveC426913]

Shouldn't that be on a log plot?

Fixed.

 

[DrGreg]

Fixed.View attachment 318359

To be pedantic...