2015/05/20 by Atanu Chatterjee · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Statistical Mechanics and Entropy #physics.pop-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1002/cplx.21697
Complexity 2015
openalex publication_date 2015/05/20 · arxiv created 2015/08/21 · arxiv updated 2015/08/31 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Murphy's Law is not a law in the formal sense yet popular science often compares it with the Second Law of Thermodynamics as both the statements point toward a more disorganized state with time. In this article, we first construct a mathematically equivalent statement for Murphy's Law and then disprove it using the intuitive idea that energy differences will level off along the paths of steepest descent, or along trajectories of least action. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Complexity 21: 374–380, 2016