You invite your friends over to watch an NBA basketball playoff game on TV. There are plenty of sodas in the refrigerator, the popcorn is popping, and you are all set to watch the big game you turn on the TV set, and all you get are fuzzy, images on the screen. Is this plain bad luck or is it murphy's law at work? murphy's law states : If anything can go wrong,it will.
Similar situations occur all the time when you are in a hurry to open the door and you try several keys on the key ring, the lastremeing key is usually the one that works. when you get in a line at the supermarket, you find you've chosen the slowest one, and it just doesn't move. Is this bad luck or coincidence? According to british physicist Robert Mathews, it's neither one nor the other. He explains that our selective memories tend to remember the bad episodes more readily than the things that usually work out. Also, the law of probability is more against us than in our favor in many situations. For example, in the supermarket with five cashiers, thechances of getting the fastest lane are 20 percent, and 80 percent for a slower lane.