What exactly is Murphy's Law?

As a magic wand that uses fortune telling to cheat a little money from time to time, I must say that this Murphy's Law is so popular because it is similar to fortune telling.

Let's talk about the tricks of fortune telling, which are divided into five steps: pressing, knocking, pasting, shaking and unloading.

Stress: it means threatening people, either through some complicated ceremonies or through some deep secret stories. In short, it is to make the subjects feel afraid or suspicious.

Knock: use some specious words to test the subject, and read out her/his interested topics and concerns from her/his facial expressions and small gestures. Some skills and experience are needed here. For example, if a young woman tells her fortune, 80% of her marriage will be counted. Just say your astrolabe is good, but there seems to be a peach blossom in recent years.

Surprise: it's the step of cheating money, which will scare you and indicate that things will get worse.

Unload: it is to shirk responsibility. The idea is to put everything in one sentence. Man proposes, God disposes. At the same time, he said that he didn't want to get involved in muddy water, and advised the tester not to ask again, and all the money he got was returned to the tester.

Next, no matter which direction things go in the end, the tester will be grateful and cry for money.

This Murphy's Law has five steps: press and knock.

This method itself sounds very tall and belongs to foreign monks who like to recite scriptures.

It is said that the name of Murphy's Law can be traced back to 1948-49. Colonel john paul stapp of the U.S. Air Force wanted to test the G-force when the rocket decelerated with a high-speed manned vehicle rocket sled during the research project of MX98 1. During the experiment, Edward A. Murphy, an engineer in the team, asked his assistant to connect the line to the sensor in the chimpanzee seat belt, but the reading was zero. Later, he found that all the sensors were connected backwards, so Murphy sighed.

Then knock on the door:

Let yourself start thinking about whether you have encountered similar things.

This is also the reason why Murphy's law can be widely spread.

However, Murphy's law is not about the lives of ordinary people at all. It's about high-precision engineering! ! !

For precision instruments, there is no room for any mistakes! A small mistake may lead to the collapse of the whole system! Therefore, "Murphy's Law" is actually a guiding principle of high-precision system engineers, which is to check all possible errors repeatedly.

As for the "Murphy's Law" that was widely circulated later, it was actually a popular version completely different from the original intention, which was divorced from the scene of high-tech engineering.

Just as "three smelly generals are better than one Zhuge Liang" is circulated as "three cobblers are better than one Zhuge Liang", which makes Zhuge Liang look like a leather shoes seller.

Murphy's Law is almost meaningless without high-precision engineering! Because if we put so much energy into everything in our daily life and make sure it doesn't go wrong, we basically don't have to live.

The popular version of "Murphy's Law" has been widely used in bestsellers such as success science, chicken soup for the soul, religious books, etc., and its essence is the pressure and beating in fortune-telling tricks. I'll scare you first, and then give you a specious solution. As for these so-called solutions, either you believe in a god, or you change your destiny with a positive and optimistic attitude towards life, or you send waves to the universe. It is more common to let you go to bed early, get up early and exercise more ... In short, these methods are basically nonsense. After all, it is to make money for fortune telling.

So Murphy's Law is a good thing, but it only applies to high-precision system engineering. The popular Murphy's Law is basically a trick to cheat money. Although it is embarrassing to break the belt when going to the toilet, it is not worth taking a magnifying glass to check whether the belt is cracked before going out every day. It is not good to be kidnapped by aliens during the college entrance examination, but it is not worth observing the sky with a telescope every night before the college entrance examination.

Misinterpret "Murphy's Law" as "afraid of everything".

What is the misinterpretation of double-slit diffraction experiment in Quantum Mechanics? Will can determine matter, and heart can change the universe.

Exaggerate a set of "artificial intelligence" deep learning algorithms, so that it can think independently beyond human existence.

Blow "embryonic stem cells" into an artifact that can cure all diseases and can be cultivated into needed organs at will.

Take "quantum entanglement" as a means of superluminal communication. ....

Alas, when we put Einstein's statue in the temple, we will be really full! So don't blame me for telling fortune and cheating money from time to time. Some people in the world need to be fooled!

Finally, people who see this post should not ask me for fortune telling! I'm telling you, all this is a lie!

If you really have money and no money to spend, you want me to lie to you, so ... a hundred ~ ~ ~ ~

I don't know if you have read Murphy's Law compiled by Yang Zhixing. He explained Murphy's law with hundreds of examples in ten chapters. I think you still have a chance to read what he said.

If I have to say something in one sentence, Murphy's Law is a summary of the experiences and lessons that the people have summed up over the years.

You might as well compare the four aspects of Murphy's Law in the screenshot with your own life experience and think about it.

Can everything match something in life?

So I don't think it's necessary to delve into what Murphy's Law is. More importantly, know how to be a man.

When you really understand the law of life when you are born, you can say that you know Murphy's law.