Sunday, April 25, 2010

Anti Murphy's Law



The validity of Murphy's law depends on the object on which it is applied. At this point, it is important to identify two categories of people in the world: Satwik Patnaik, and everybody else.* While Murphy's law remains uncompromisingly valid for the latter, the former come under the purview of Anti Murphy's law: "Whatever can go right will go right."

Famous example of Anti Murphy's law:

In the sacred (by virtue of Satwik starting his undergraduate studies at IIT Mumbai) year, 2000 AD, Satwik wrote his IIT-JEE examinations. Understandably, the evaluators did not understand the elegance of his solutions. However, as fortune would have it, the IITs did not have to pay the price for their ignorance. The powerful Anti Murphy's law came to their rescue, and of the 263,473 candidates that took the examination, the list of 3872 qualified candidates had exactly one typographical error, by virtue of which Satwik still got admission into IIT Mumbai [Ref: Satwik Patnaik].

*Such distinction becomes even more conspicuous in the case of an imminent destruction of the world, where only one (obvious) category shall be selected to survive. For further technical information on this event, contact Sudhir S. Kudva.

1 comment:

Bodhisatwa Sadhu said...

Another of numerous other famous examples would be Satwik's ISSCC paper [Ref: Satwik Patnaik]!