Pauli effect
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pauli-effect-166-18517398
title:
Pauli effect
text:
The Pauli effect or Pauli's device corollary is the supposed tendency of technical equipment to encounter critical failure in the presence of certain people. The term was coined after mysterious anecdotal stories involving Austrian theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli, describing numerous instances in which demonstrations involving equipment suffered technical problems only when he was present. The Pauli effect is not related to the Pauli exclusion principle, which is a bona fide physical phenom
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Superstition that equipment only fails in the presence of certain people
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_effect
date created:
2002-02-25T15:51:15Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T08:21:36Z
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