To do so, astronomers resort to Fourier analysis, a mathematical technique that allows them to break a complexcurve into a set of simple ones called sine waves.
This non-linear tendency is why complex systems are more likely to follow a power-law probability distribution than the more familiar bell-curve distribution.
The new security-industrial complex will grow, because we need it and because this economic juggernaut will take us down the now familiar tech curve of declining costs.