Things you know that violate the laws of science......

I think that’s the law of wishful thinking. :wink:

My telephone violates all known laws of causality on a regular basis. I run my own business from home. I’m waiting for an important call. I’m near the phone, able to answer it easily, for 8 hours. No call. I decide to quickly run next door to the store to buy milk or get a paper (which will take literally less than a minute). When I get back… turns out I missed the call.

This happens so often it’s unbelievable. There ought not to be any causal relationship between my foot touching the ground outside my door and people choosing that moment to phone me, but there is.

Also, where do all the cheap, ball-point pens go? These things are manufactured by the million and I buy boxes of 'em, and yet when I urgently need one to scribble something down… I might just as well hunt for unicorn feathers.

My office phone is programmed to ring the minute I hit the bathroom. Sometimes it rings when I stand up to go to the bathroom, or even when I think “I have to go pee.”

I have noticed something similar. Apparently, I have the power to control rain via my car windows. If I leave them open, guaranteed rain. Furthermore, my windows do not work as a simple on/off switch, but rather the degree or openness is in fact an accelerator for the rains. By adjusting the basic slider controls (open a little= little rain, open completely=torrential downpour), I can achieve near surgical precision rainfall.

I’ve often thought of going in to business in drought stricken areas. “Let’s see; you need a good, hard soaking rain? I’ll leave my car out with the windows open halfway and your crops should be sprouting in no time.”

Must be in a temporally recursive loop. Try reversing the polarity on the Pseudomatter Heisenberg Optimizer and switching to shunting the feedback protocals into the Renticular Renomalizer.

Oh, and try switching your blend; there are a lot of decaffinated coffees that taste just as good as the real thing.

Stranger

That’s going to be tough, I don’t drink coffee.

Or the one in my washer where half of almost every pair of socks have disappeared.

I also have clothes that defy all laws of science. They keep shrinking by just lying around. I can tell because they keep getting tighter when I wear them.

Yes, but does the cat?

Plants need water, sunlight and nutrients to grow, right?

So why is it that when I give plants water, sunlight and nutriets they don’t grow, but there’s an old potted plant my wife has been trying to kill by leaving it in a dark, unheated shed with no access to either water or plant food and it will outlive our children?

Good question. I’ll look into it.

I know this thread about about things that violate the laws of science; but now you’re just stretching things too far.

About the phone, I think what is happenning is that you are generating waves of probability. So therefore when you are near the phone you maybe quashing the probabilitys of getting a call. When you leave of course your subconscious is focussed on the probability that it WILL ring thus causeing waves of probability to collapse and resulting in the phone ringing while your gone. You have a remarkable ability to alter probability there, you just need to get the conscious mind take control of that ability… then goto Vegas.

As far as the pens? yeah, I know exactly what your talking about. I can find Pens, and Pencils that my friends leave at my place but none of my own. Perhaps there is some sort of unplanned swap meet that the Pens and pencils are doing? A sorta “I’ve been hanging around here to long. let’s take a road trip and go somewhere else!”

Never one to pass up a relevent Hitchhiker’s quote: Where do all the pens go?

Stranger

I must have some sort of heretofore-unheard-of wandering black hole in my house. Right about floor level. I have decided this because whenever I drop a small object it apparently vanishes instantaneously, never to be seen again. The most recent victim was a small, green boxcutter-type utility knife. I heard a small “thwack” right after I let go of it and assumed that was the sound of it hitting the floor somewhere in my vicinity. Nope. Must have been the sound of it popping out of this universe via the black hole.

Oh, and all of you all with Pixels have got the wrong one. This is him. Only it was a closed window he walked through last week instead of a wall.

This thread makes me recall a story I once read about a wizard who tried to breed cats with the ability to walk through walls. While doing this, he realized that they already had this ability.

And as for things that violate various laws of the universe, the second law of thermo-dynamics violates the first law of thermo-dynamics. :slight_smile:

if i take my snow tires off before mid-April it will snow for the next two days or so

Er, no it doesn’t.

Naked signularities, however, and certain solutions (Kerr solution) to the Einstein-Rosen formulation for black holes can create timelike paths through space that do violate causality, which we’ve always assumed to be a universal law (though there is no particular reason that it need be so). The hypthesized “Law of Cosmic Censorship” should prevent nasty recursions in the mangled spaghetti code that is reality, but that is just an assumption on our part.

Stranger

Whenever applied to my force exerted, Newton’s second and third laws are inverse whenever I play golf or pool.