In reliability theory, aging is defined through the increased risk of failure.’ So, by definition, we are more likely to fail as we get older?
The Methuselah Mouse Prize site (http://www.mprize.org/): one for the academics – or anyone interested in the ‘fight against aging’. We picked up the link because of this article: ‘The reliability-engineering approach to understanding aging is based on ideas, methods, and models borrowed from reliability theory. Developed in the late 1950s to describe the failure and aging of complex electrical and electronic equipment, reliability theory … is so general in scope that it can be applied to understanding aging in living organisms as well. In reliability theory, aging is defined through the increased risk of failure.’
So, by definition, we are more likely to fail as we get older?Mmmm…