A given organism – human being for example – lives a first half-life of, say, 50 years, then 25, then 12 1/2, then 6 1/4, 3 1/8…never reaching 100, of course, but the rate of diminishing half-life terms soon takes on the explosive chart characteristics of a Singularity-type event trying to get there.

Similarly, every completed life-cycle may be expressed (after the fact) by a precise sequence of half-lifes that go deeply, and infinitely, into its minute of passing.

Thus, if one treats the universe as an organism – physical, biological or both – , Singularity Theory’s Law of Accelerated Returns begins to look much like a series of half-lifes, too.

But, just like a human being’s base half-life can’t be calculated to decimal accuracy until the end has occurred, so it is with the Singularity’s ultimate point of explosion into universal, or universally expanding, smart matter.

We know from human experience that a nanogenerian is mowing through half-lifes at a pretty good clip because we know fifty years or so is about as big a base half-life as humans can currently hope for.

But how do we really know the base half-life of the Universe? To where we can plot it forward to a single solar year, 2045 – when Singularity theorists say man and machines merge and the Singularity begins to begin?

Maybe. Or maybe it’s 20,045.