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Murphic Field In Daily Life, The (UnReal)Everything Goes Wrong
Date: 1995/09/07, 1996/10/29 Agree? Disagree? : Have Your Say Buy Books About This Topic At: Amazon UK Amazon US Send This Article To A Friend: Email It Use Telepathy Not many people know that, just like the law of gravity can be expressed by a gravitational field, Murphy's law [1] can have a field associated with it: the Murphic field. The amplitude of this field at a specified coordinate indicates the probability of something going wrong at that location. The Murphic field covers the entire planet, or rather, everywhere anyone lets his or her mind wander [2]. That the intensity variations seem to have maxima at the locations of supermarkets has already been adequately explored. Just as the electric field is generated by sources (electric charges), the Murphic field is generated by situations. The Murphic field strength depends on the severity of the consequences of a "happening", where a happening is defined as a spontaneous collapse of the Murphic field at a specific location. I will give an example later on. The study of the Murphic field is still in its infancy; it has not yet been defined how to quantify situations. It is, however, already reasonably simple to compare field strengths of situations. If one takes two identical pieces of buttered bread, then smears one with syrup on the buttered side and puts cheese on the other piece, then the slice of syruped bread is far more likely to fall on the buttered side when it hits the ground than the other one. This is common knowledge. After some training it is easy to detect the Murphic field strength in daily life. A happy and innocent little child playing close to some dangerously moving very heavy cast-iron swings is for instance easily identified as a situation with a large local Murphic field strength. Luckily the Murphic field can just as easy be diminished by simple manipulations, like telling the kid to play somewhere else. The tricky thing is that the manipulation itself disturbs the Murphic field, temporarily creating a significantly higher amplitude. Some people even go so far as to utilise the manipulation to create highly entertaining [3] home movies [4]. In fact, careful manipulation of the Murphic field is the principle on which magic, the real magic, is based. A company, which declined to be named, has sponsored research into how the Murphic field acts in business environments. Important files were placed on blank unlabeled floppies and checked periodically to find out how long it took for someone to accidently delete them. All floppies were tracked for five years, but the program was aborted when it appeared that all the tracking data were accidently erased.
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