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| Shore 1994 , Mysteries of life and the universe, p | Murphy was engaged in supporting similar research using high speed centrifuges to generate g-forces |
" See also [ ]• The contemporary form of Murphy's law goes back as far as 1952, as an epigraph to a mountaineering book by , who described it as an "ancient mountaineering adage": Anything that can possibly go wrong, does.
22| Mathematician wrote on June 23, 1866: "The first experiment already illustrates a truth of the theory, well confirmed by practice, what-ever can happen will happen if we make trials enough | Association with Murphy [ ] Differing recollections years later by various participants make it impossible to pinpoint who first coined the saying Murphy's law |
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| I was told that by an architect | 2009-10-14 at the — Improbable Research• Matthews received the for physics in 1996 for this work |
| " Anne Roe's papers are in the American Philosophical Society archives in Philadelphia; those records as noted by Stephen Goranson on the American Dialect Society list, December 31, 2008 identify the interviewed physicist as Howard Percy "Bob" Robertson 1903—1961 | The human factor cannot be safely neglected in planning machinery |
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| During the tests, questions were raised about the accuracy of the instrumentation used to measure the g-forces Captain Stapp was experiencing | The New York Times: Freakonomics |
In particular, Murphy's law is often cited as a form of the the law of entropy because both are predicting a tendency to a more disorganised state.
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