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From: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: The End Of The Universe
Message-ID: <179@moncol.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Mar-86 00:05:25 EST
Article-I.D.: moncol.179
Posted: Tue Mar  4 00:05:25 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 5-Mar-86 04:48:14 EST
References: <680@drutx.UUCP>
Reply-To: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer)
Organization: Monmouth College, W. Long Branch, NJ
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In article <680@drutx.UUCP> pagiven@drutx.UUCP (GivenP) writes:
>
>This newsgroup was raging with a  rumor  about  a  future  particle
>accelerator  capable of producing energies high enough to cause the
>present universe to change state (i.e., the known laws  of  physics
>would change).
>
>I must, regretfully, inform the net that  such  machine  must  have
>been  built, because I have observed that basic fundamental univer-
>sal laws have begun to change.
>
>I was standing before a vending machine, quarter in hand,  deciding
>which  product  to buy therefrom.  As I was placing the coin in the
>slot, it slipped from my hand, fell upon the floor, rolled in  lazy
>circles, and came to rest beside my feet.  It obviously should have
>rolled underneath the vending machine, down the  nearby  drain,  or
>into the floor vent, never to be seen again.
>
>Murphy's Law (The probability of anything  happening  is  inversely
>proportional  to  its  desirability),  known to physicists from the
>ancient Greek times to be  one  of  the  fundamental  laws  of  the
>universe,  has been violated.  The fabric of the space-time contin-
>uum has been torn asunder and the end is near.

Ah... if you're expecting something to happen and it does, then you are
saying that one of Murphy's Laws has been violated.

But, in this case, you were expecting the worst to happen and it didn't.
Therefore, Murphy's Law has not been violated- what you expected to happen
did not.

Relax, everyone. The universe is safe. You may return to your news reading.

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