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Entropy and Murphy's Law

Murphy's Law states that if anything can go wrong, it will go wrong.

Entropy explains why Murphy's Law is so prevalent in life. Life can go wrong in more ways than it can go right. What is remarkable is not that life has problems, but that we have the ability to solve them.

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