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darkerside
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Entropy Is Fatal
In the long run, most J curves are actually S curves
sophacles
on June 8, 2022
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I question the "most" here, rather than "all". Examples of J curves that aren't S curves?
DeathArrow
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>Examples of J curves that aren't S curves?
Reindeer population growth in Alaska.
dron57
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That's absolutely an S-curve. Any animal population will eventually run out of resources.
uoaei
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Wait a few decades and it will probably plateau at, if not shrink from, a maximum.
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Dark Energy astrophysics.
uoaei
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You seem confident an "ultraviolet catastrophe"-like scenario won't play out there, too.
sumy23
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