Ain't quantum mechanics the cat's meow?
Yup. I used to do a lot of application programming on dumb terminals tied to mainframes. They were real stupid, in that you had to specifically save your keyed-in data periodically with a command. If you took a minute (or seconds) more than you should have, the terminal would lose its connection or something else would happen to the mainframe, and your most critical data was gone forever. The terminal would often sense when you were about to do a save, and lose the data a second prior to that. Now I use software that periodically saves my data, my data is automatically backed up every hour, and my hard drives are in RAID arrays on UPS back up battery systems. The ghosts in the machine look for opportunities to screw with you unless you beat them at the game.