Practical Laws of Nature

[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 e_s = 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

[Chris_Shugart]

The liklihood of an SUV driver getting on their cell phone increases in direct proportion to the difficulty of the SUV maneuver involved at the time.

[ironmaidenPR2717]

I don't know about electronics, but I was talking to a good friend last week and we got to reminiscing and discovered we actually met each other on the exact same day! Is that incredible or what? And that's happened to me more than once!
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Please tell me no one took that seriously :)

[FractalMan]

No worry, I just laughed.

[FractalMan]

Great link, I will have to go through it in detail.
Thanks!

[tet68]

No two identical socks can occupy the same space time continuum
in a rotating heated environment.

[DennisR]

I think you should revise your equation as follows:

For t > 10, then e_s = n^(t/1000), because there does not appear to be any limit to how tangled they can become, and the entanglement sneaks up on you so slowly that by the time you figure it out it is too late.

[Abogado]

"How about the socks in the dryer and the dimension they travel to?"

That ones easy: 1 Sock + dryer = 1 new coat hanger in closet.

[mlc9852]

Love it! LOL