<P> There have been persistent references to Murphy's law associating it with the laws of thermodynamics from early on (see the quotation from Anne Roe's book above). In particular, Murphy's law is often cited as a form of the second law of thermodynamics (the law of entropy) because both are predicting a tendency to a more disorganised state . Atanu Chatterjee investigated this idea by formally stating Murphy's law in mathematical terms . Chatterjee found that Murphy's law so stated could be disproved using the principle of least action . </P> <P> From its initial public announcement, Murphy's law quickly spread to various technical cultures connected to aerospace engineering . Before long, variants had passed into the popular imagination, changing as they went . </P> <P> Author Arthur Bloch has compiled a number of books full of corollaries to Murphy's law and variations thereof . The first of these was Murphy's law and other reasons why things go wrong!, </P> <P> Yhprum's law, where the name is spelled backwards, is "anything that can go right, will go right"--the optimistic application of Murphy's law in reverse . </P>

Who wrote where there's a will there's a way