The elevator paradox proves your elevator always goes the wrong
way  Does it occur to you, when waiting for an elevator, that
elevators always seem to be going the wrong way? It occurred to
two physicists, too. And, with a little work, they proved that
this wasn't just Murphy's Law, it was reality.  George Gamow was
a physicist who worked had a celebrated, and action-packed
career which included working on radiation research and
defecting from the USSR. Busy guy. At one point he found himself
in an office on the second floor of a six story building. He was
friendly with Marvin Stern, another physicist. Stern had himself
an office on the fifth floor of the same building. The two must
have been visiting quite a bit, because after a while, they both
noticed a strange phenomenon.  Gamow, whenever he used an
elevator to go up to Stern's office, found that all the
elevators seemed to be going down. Stern, on his way down to
Gamow's office, found that elevators were always going up. Two
people, in the same building,