Chapter 10, Problem 10.16PAE

Murphy's law is a whimsical rule that says that anything that can go wrong will go wrong. But in an article in the Journal of Chemical Education, Frank Lambert writes, "Murphy's law is a fraud." He also writes, "The second law of thermodynamics is time's arrow, but chemical kinetics is its clock." Read Lambert's article (J. Chem. Ed., 74(8), 1997, p. 947), and write an essay explaining, in the context of the latter quotation, why Lambert claims that Murphy's law is a fraud.