Actually, they do age like you age, obviously so for the car and the device where it is a matter of breakage of components, and for the wine and the cheese more

Actually, they do age like you age, obviously so for the car and the device where it is a matter of breakage of components, and for the wine and the cheese more a matter of drawing analogies with specific biochemical processes involved in aging. Reliability theory applies very well to aging, just as it does to the aging of machinery, and its high level models reproduce reality quite well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_theory_of_aging_and_longevity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_theory_of_aging_and...