Weird Laws

[rgraham666]

Not what you think.

What weird laws of physics or probability do you think hold true? Or just amuse you?

Mine is Finagle's Law.

"The perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum."

Or in layman's terms, "Things do not merely go wrong, they go weird."

 

[R. Richard]

Murphy's law: "If anything can go wrong, it will."
Murphy's Corollary: "If it could have gone wrong earlier and it did not, it ultimately would have been beneficial for it to have gone wrong earlier."
R. Richard's Corollary, "If nothing can go wrong, it still will, but with somewhat less frequency than things that can go wrong."
O'Toole's Corollary: "Murphy was an optimist!"

 

[Alex756]

Drake's Equation

N = R x fp x ne x fl x fi x fc x L

R is the rate at which stars have been born in the Milky Way per year, fp is the fraction of these stars that have solar systems of planets, ne is the average number of "Earthlike" planets (potentially suitable for life) in the typical solar system, fl is the fraction of those planets on which life actually forms, fi is the fraction of life-bearing planets where biological evolution produces an intelligent species, fc is the fraction of intelligent species that become capable of interstellar radio communication, and L is the average lifetime of a communicating civilization in years.

~Alex