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Murphy's Law is a witticism which states that 'anything that can possibly go wrong will go wrong'. The Law came into recognition at the Edward's Air force Base at North Base in 1949. It was named after Captain Edward Murphy, who had been working on an Air Force Project MX981, which was designed to see the level of deceleration one can stand during an air crash. During a particular incident, after discovering a faulty wiring of transducer, Murphy cursed the technician responsible by saying "If there is any way to do it wrong, he will find it." The contractor's project manager, who kept a list of all the laws, named this one as 'Murphy's Law'. Murphy hated when someone used his name for absurd theories of "Why does buttered bread always land butter-side down?" He was the victim of his own Law.
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Before then, things that went wrong and blamed on anyone, or even no one in particular was called the "Evil Eye".
Monarchs in the UK would employ a court jester to ridicule people, including the monarch, to offset the effects of the evil eye, or as we now know, when "sod's law was around. As it happens to everyone on the planet, not just the US Air Force, I would love to see it studied properly. I have enquired of many people and seen first hand accounts of people being killed by being in the wrong place, at the wrong time, within the range of a split second. It normally happens when people change a long standing routine that things will go wrong.