Is the statement of Murphy's law valid? |
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| Authors: | Atanu Chatterjee |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India |
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| Abstract: | Murphy's Law is not a law in the formal sense yet popular science often compares it with the Second Law of Thermodynamics as both the statements point toward a more disorganized state with time. In this article, we first construct a mathematically equivalent statement for Murphy's Law and then disprove it using the intuitive idea that energy differences will level off along the paths of steepest descent, or along trajectories of least action. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Complexity 21: 374–380, 2016 |
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| Keywords: | Murphy's law principle of least action second law of thermodynamics probability measure |
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