Posted on 05/13/2005 1:29:14 PM PDT by FractalMan
I have been thinking that we need to identify laws of nature that affect our daily lives. For example, in this age of electronics we are often confronted with this law:
1. Two or more wires left alone for more than 10 minutes will become severely entangled, with the severity of entanglement directly proportional to the square of the number of wires minus the inverse of time.
If t > 10, then es = n2 - 1/t
In practical terms, this means the wires will attain near maximum entanglement after only 10 minutes and increase of entanglement after the initial threshold of 10 minutes will be minor and quickly become insignificant.
I am posting this in the hope that others in this forum have identified other practical laws of nature and would contribute them. If there is sufficient number of new laws that would make an interesting publication, I will give full credit and donate any profits to Free Republic.
Charles Pfeil
It's all Bunnies & Pancakes to me.
ping
It's just not the same without the picture!
How about the socks in the dryer and the dimension they travel to?
(Sorry, the only formula I know about is the kind a baby eats, so you're own your own, there)
LOL!
What are you, just nuts or are you crazy?
Computer cables self-weave.
The complexity of the weave increases logarithmically with the number of cables.
There is a practical law of nature that says whatever i have lost is always located in the last place I look.
And don't forget that no matter which way a shirt was put in a washer, it always ends up inside out.
One PFC can ask another, "Hey, explain that quantum mechanics thing to me," and he'll get a doctoral thesis out of it. The division sergeant major asks the same PFC where he's from, and the kid'll just stand there and drool on himself.
"There is a practical law of nature that says whatever i have lost is always located in the last place I look."
This law has some close kin:
1) Any object dropped on the floor rolls to the most inaccessible spot.
2) Any object dropped assumes the color and texture of its surroundings.
Plus, if you figure out the weave and straighten everything out (OK, OK, so I need a hobby) they'll create a completely different weave in the next 10 minutes.
The number of teeth a person has, is inversely related to the number of tattoos.
The rationality of the driver is inversly proportional to the number of bumper stickers on the back of the car.
PCs are child's play.
Try working on a patch panel in a good-sized LAN room, or a 42U rack of servers with a pair of dual-redundant disk controllers and an array of disks.
(It was only recently that I began to wonder whether the term "dual-redundant pair" was itself redundant.)
IW: "What are you, just nuts or are you crazy?"
I retract the silly question. I meant no offense. Sorry, and no reply needed.
Beforehand you cannot determine which side of the bread to butter.
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