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PROF. MCCORMICK1 has recently suggested that “all naturally occurring phenomena proceed according to exponential functions of time and each process in Nature conforms to its own unique time scale”. The empirical equation: is suggested as an appropriate quantitative formulation, the values of k and c depending on the process considered.
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McCormick, N. G., Nature, 203, 334 (1965).
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FREMLIN, J. Nature's Time-scale. Nature 211, 1107–1108 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2111107a0
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