Enjoy reading the article. was concise and fairly easy to understand. I liked the examples that demonstrate Murphy`s Law at the end of the article. In the late 1940s, the Air Force was in the era of the test pilot: it pushed the boundaries of where aviation technology could go, how fast it could get there, and what impact it would have on the human body. Fortunately, no one died in the creation of Murphy`s Law. When the experiment was conducted, all sensors returned with zero values. No data. All four converters had failed. When the team looked at what was wrong with the meters, they found that each was wired upside down and the electronic signals all worked upside down.
Of course, the idea that “things are falling apart” is older than Murphy. Accidents, cynics and entropy have been around longer than aviation. Phrases similar to Murphy`s Law – “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong” – appeared in an 1800s ship diary and a 1908 article on stage magic. If something can`t go wrong, it will. Murphy`s Law is a good reason why engineers always test everything, test and test. You have to imagine all the possible catastrophic results so that these results are not achieved. The use of Murphy`s Law in the development of new technologies is also known as “defensive design” or “Murphy`s test”. Designers must consider all the possibilities that a user spoils and somehow makes them impossible or at least unable to harm. It is difficult to directly link Murphy`s Law to Captain Murphy.
A handful of linguists have taken it upon themselves to trace the origins of Murphy`s Law as a kind of hobby project – there is no party like a party of linguists. During testing, Captain Murphy found that the 16 delay sensors had been installed incorrectly. Each sensor could be installed in two ways, and in each case, the sensor was not installed correctly. Murphy`s Law quickly gained popularity in other professions, for example, it appeared in a crime magazine in 1965 and in a printing magazine in 1967. It seems that work is the place where most things can go wrong. In 1948, the Air Force worked on a research project at Edwards Air Force Base in California codenamed MX981. The goal was to discover the effects of gravitational acceleration (G-forces) on fighter pilots. They believed that the maximum G-forces the human body could withstand were 18. They would soon realize they were wrong, but they had to do a series of tests to find out.
A reporter quickly asked Lt. Col. John Stapp, commander-in-chief of the MX981 project, how they managed to avoid injury or death with a project like his. Stapp told the reporter that his team operates under “Murphy`s Law, if something can go wrong, it will.” He tried to tell the reporter that the Air Force anticipated possible failures and assumed the worst-case scenario and addressed those possibilities before anyone was injured. By Christmas 1949, the test program had finished using crash test dummies and even chimpanzees to test the effects of G-forces. With Murphy`s Law guiding his research, Stapp became a human test subject, supporting 35G of force and looking back and forward. The press quickly called Stapp both “the fastest man in the world” and “the bravest man in the Air Force.” According to the law of entropy, the systems in our universe naturally tend to get into disorder. While this may be true on a large scale over time, it probably doesn`t explain why you tripped on your skateboard or ran out of hot water in the shower! Murphy`s Law is commonly expressed as follows: “If something can go wrong, it will go wrong.” Sometimes “and at the most inopportune time” is added to the end of the saying. Many problems, failures, and inconveniences are attributed to Murphy`s Law, but most people don`t know where the name comes from. From its first public announcement, Murphy`s Law quickly expanded to various engineering cultures associated with aerospace engineering. [24] It wasn`t long before variants entered the popular imagination and changed over time. In fact, Murphy`s Law is generally attributed to Captain Edward A.
Murphy, Jr. Captain Murphy was an Air Force engineer who participated in deceleration tests at Edwards Air Force Base in California in 1949.
