can someone explain me further the Murphy's Law?

Question

do u believe in it? have u experienced it in ur life?

Answer 1

Murphy's law is a popular adage in Western culture that most likely originated at Edwards Air Force Base in 1948. The Law broadly states that things will go wrong in any given situation, if you give them a chance. "If there's more than one way to do a job, and one of those ways will result in disaster, then somebody will do it that way." It is most often cited as "Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong" (or, alternately, "Anything that can go wrong, will").

Murphy's Law is sometimes confused with Finagle's Corollary, which is also known as Sod's law.

Per the 1948 theory, in American culture the law was named somewhat sarcastically by Stapp's Team working on Project MX981 at Edwards Air Force Base after Major Edward A. Murphy, Jr., a development engineer contributing support measurement technology for a brief time on rocket sled experiments done by the United States Air Force in 1948 with inveterate adage collector and the law's undoubted populizer Doctor/Colonel John Paul Stapp, a former next-door neighbour and friend of Murphy.

History of Murphy's LawThe most detailed examination of the origins of the Law is the book A History of Murphy's Law by author Nick T. Spark. Spark concludes that differing recollections years later by various participants make it impossible to pinpoint who exactly coined the phrase. The Law supposedly stems from an attempt to use new measurement devices developed by the eponymous Edward Murphy, and was coined in adverse reaction to something Murphy said when his devices failed to perform and eventually cast into its present form prior to a press conference some months later, the first ever (of many) given by Colonel Stapp, The fastest man on earth.

Variations:
* If that guy has any way of making a mistake, he will.
* If it can happen, it will happen.
* Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
* If there's more than one way to do a job, and one of those ways will result in disaster, then somebody will do it that way
* If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.
* Anything That Can Possibly Go Wrong, Does
* 'Everything that can possibly go wrong will go wrong'
* It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
* A slice of buttered bread, when dropped, will always land butter-side down.
* If you put two electrical cords together, or even if it's a single cord, a hopeless tangle will likely result.
* The day you forget your umbrella, it pours with rain.
* Nothing ever gets built to budget or to deadline.
* Your printer will always jam the night before something important is due.
* Murphy's Corollary of the Power of Negative Thinking: "An optimist is never pleasantly surprised."

Derivations
* Any time you put an item in a "safe place", it will never be seen again.
* Anything dropped in the bathroom will fall in the toilet.
* Anything you try to fix will take longer and cost you more than you thought.
* Corollary: If there is a worst time for something to go wrong, it will happen then.
* Everything goes wrong all at once.
* Everything takes longer than you think.
* For any given software, the moment you manage to master it, a new version of that software appears on the market.
* If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
* Just when you think things cannot get any worse, they will.

War-related
* Air strikes always overshoot the target, artillery always falls short.
* As soon as you are served hot chow in the field, it rains.
* Every command which can be misunderstood, will be.
* Everything always works in your HQ, everything always fails in the Colonel's HQ.
* Exceptions prove the rule, and destroy the battle plan.
* Field experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
* Five second fuses always burn three seconds.
* For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. (in boot camp)
* Fortify your front; you'll get your rear shot up.
* Radios will fail as soon as you need fire support.
* When reviewing the radio frequencies that you just wrote down, the most important ones are always illegible.
* When you are low on supplies and ammo the enemy decides to attack that night.
* When you have sufficient supplies and ammo, the enemy takes two weeks to attack.
* Whenever you drop your equipment in a fire-fight, your ammo and grenades always fall the farthest away, and your canteen always lands at your feet.

...and my version when driving "the OTHER lane always moves faster"

Answer 2

Murphy's law states that if there are two ways to do a task, the bad or wrong one will be performed not the safer one.

Murphy's law is in my eyes true. The reason it was invented was because it happened to a human test subject. There were 16 rockets attached to his back. They were all put on backwards and the man was killed. Two ways---the right way or backwords. The wrong one happened here. This is how it happened.

Answer 3

AKA Sod's Law, and if it can go wrong it will go wrong syndrome? Yes have experienced it and it is frustrating and you can't help but take it personally at the time, but you do seem to find at a later date, that it all ties in with another old saying that, everything happens for a reason, something I truly believe in.

Answer 4

this is only been calibrated with measurements from the final 10 years, and we've inadequate documents on ocean warmth content cloth to verify, as I know it. this could be a rather stable paper, suggesting the fashions are doing a stable activity, yet greater documents is mandatory to be certain the calibration. ideally they could have printed projections in some unspecified time interior the destiny, so we are able to examine the subsequent couple of many years.

Answer 5

Murphy's Law is just the law of probability, you just remember the negative outcomes more.

Answer 6

The Law broadly states that things will go wrong in any given situation, if you give them a chance.

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Anything that can go wrong, will. It's kind of a pessimistic view of the world, used as an excuse for something happening pertaining to "bad luck".

Answer 7

Murphys law happens every day. It happens to me almost every day I would say.
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