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  2. List of eponymous laws - Wikipedia

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    Avogadro's law, one of the gas laws, states that: "equal volumes of all gases, at the same temperature and pressure, have the same number of molecules." Babinet's principle, in physics, states that the diffraction pattern from an opaque body is identical to that from a hole of the same size and shape except for the overall forward beam intensity.

  3. Murphy's law - Wikipedia

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    Murphy's law [a] is an adage or epigram that is typically stated as: "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.".. Though similar statements and concepts have been made over the course of history, the law itself was coined by, and named after, American aerospace engineer Edward A. Murphy Jr.; its exact origins are debated, but it is generally agreed it originated from Murphy and his team ...

  4. Murphy's Law (British TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Murphy's Law is a BBC television drama, produced by Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC Northern Ireland, starring James Nesbitt [1] as undercover police officer Tommy Murphy. There were five series of the drama, shown on BBC One. The first two were composed of individual stories.

  5. Edward A. Murphy Jr. - Wikipedia

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    Edward Aloysius Murphy Jr. (January 11, 1918 – July 17, 1990 [1]) was an American aerospace engineer who worked on safety-critical systems. He is best known for his namesake "Murphy's law", which is said to be "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong".

  6. Sod's law - Wikipedia

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    Sod's law is a more extreme version of Murphy's law. While Murphy's law says that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong (eventually), Sod's law requires that it will always go wrong with the worst possible outcome or at the worst time. Belief in Sod's law can be viewed as a combination of the law of truly large numbers and the psychological ...

  7. James Drescher - Wikipedia

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    Murphy's Law is an American hardcore band from New York City, New York, formed in 1982. While vocalist Jimmy Drescher remains the only remaining original member of the band. the line-up has consisted of former members of bands such as Skinnerbox, Danzig, The Bouncing Souls, Mucky Pup, Dog Eat Dog, Hanoi Rocks, Agnostic Front, Warzone, Cro-Mags, and D Generation.

  8. Murphy's Law (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Murphy's Law is the first novel of the Martin Murphy series by Northern Irish author Colin Bateman, published on 13 October 2011 through Headline Publishing Group. [1] The novel is adapted from the television series of the same name , created by Bateman and starring James Nesbitt .

  9. Yhprum's law - Wikipedia

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    Yhprum's law is the opposite of Murphy's law.The simple formula of Yhprum's law is: "Everything that can work, will work." "Yhprum" is "Murphy" spelled backwards. A more specific formulation of the law by Richard Zeckhauser, a professor of political economy at Harvard University, states: "Sometimes systems that should not work, work nevertheless."