Enligt den fysiker som skapade algoritmen för filmen beskriver " Decay Rate Formula " bäst hur cellförfall påverkar människans dödlighet.
Det är uppenbart att Curt Connors har ett djupt intresse för cellulär regenerering och skulle därmed vara mest intresserad av cellens livscykel.
Being a physics professor who is also a fan of superhero comic books (I created a class at Minnesota titled: “Everything I Know About Physics I Learned from Reading Comic Books”) I recognize that one must invoke a "miracle exception from the laws of nature" in order to justify "spider-powers" or men mutated into giant lizards. When Andy Siegel asked me to create an equation that would relate to cell regeneration and human mortality — an equation called the "Decay Rate Algorithm" in the film — I nevertheless wanted to ground the formula in real science. Naturally, I thought of the Gompertz equation.
Armed with this background, I was ready to provide an equation to Andy Siegel, but I did not want to just simply send him the actual Gompertz equation, as there would seem to be little reason for the professional scientists in the film to not already know it. I therefore combined expressions from “The Reliability Theory of Aging and Longevity” by Leonid Gavrilov and Natalia Gavrilova into a single formula, and added extra terms (“mathematical glitter,” if you will) so that it would appear sufficiently complex. (The actual Gompertz equation can be written in a simple and compact manner that did not meet the visual needs of the filmmakers.)
How I created the algorithm that amazed Spider-Man by James Kakalios
Du kan också hitta följande video för att vara av intresse. Det handlar mest om den (verkliga världen) tillämpningen av formeln, men det nämns Spider-Man några gånger