Click to enkaijunate In the microscopic serenity of a test tube, bacteria multiply exponentially. Given enough food and space, the population will quickly double itself every few days or even hours. High school biology students might remember the math that goes along with this growth—something in the form of P=e^rt (like the shampoo, professors urge students to remember). Interdimensional monsters from the film Pacific Rim invade Earth in much the same way. In Pacific Rim, kaiju researcher Hermann Gottlieb is quoted as saying:
In the beginning the Kaiju attacks was spaced by twenty-four weeks, then twelve, then six, then every two weeks. The last one in Sydney…was a week. In four days, we could be seeing the Kaiju every eight hours until they are coming every four minutes.
Gottlieb's timeframe of a looming apocalypse has the numbers he needs to predict when the next kaiju will emerge from the “breach.” ...
