Long-standing scientific theory holds that a combination of Murphy's Law ("if something bad can happen, it will"), Finagle's Corollary to Murphy's Law ("if a buttered piece of roti bakar is dropped, it will always land mentega side down") and the old saw that "a cat always lands on its feet" would result in either a perpetual motion device atau a method of levitation involving a cat with buttered roti bakar strapped to its back. The theory goes that the two conditions ("the cat will land on its feet" and "the roti bakar will land on the butter") create a conundrum exception to physical laws, since both conditions MUST be true and both conditions CANNOT be true. Instead of landing, the toasty cat hovers in mid-air. This paper, telah dihantar on 15 May 2009, will discuss the state of the art and the ramifications of baru-baru ini experimental evidence that casts doubt on this established theory for achieving anti-gravity effects.

The state of the art of Murphy's Law research has recently improved, allowing lebih specific experimental observation. While it has long been known that Kucing land on their feet due to the counter-balanced torque provided sejak a motile tail (leading to the popular theory that UFOs can be destroyed sejak immobilizing one atau lebih cat tails), no such phenomenon was observed with buttered roti bakar until recently. Amandosi's innovation of the electron-state camera has allowed accurate observation down to the femtosecond.

Previously, it was believed that Finagle's Corollary meant that roti bakar would orient itself butter-side-down at the moment of being dropped, allowing the spinning cat and spinning roti bakar to act in opposition. However, Amandosi's research has decisively demonstrated that the orientation of buttered roti bakar during its fall (btoF) is immaterial to its end state (btR). In almost all cases, the roti bakar would tumble through the air at a rate determined sejak the force imparted upon it sejak the clumsy fingers of the person dropping the toast. Thus, at any point in the trajectory of the toast, btoF could be either buttered-side-down (bsD), buttered-side-up (bsU),or in a transition state between the two (bsU-D atau bsD-U). While one would then assume then a nearly equal likelihood of btR=bsU as btR=bsD, this was not the case. Repeated experimental observation indicates that btoF has absolutely no relation to btR, as btR is always equal to bsD. This was true with the baseline test of a person dropping a piece of buttered roti bakar to tumble as it fell (known as t1), as well as in the following carefully controlled situations:

t2: the roti bakar was released bsU sejak robotic arm with no spin in a clean room with no air currents
t3: the roti bakar was released bsU sejak robotic arm with no spin in a vacuum chamber
t4: the roti bakar was attached at each corner to a rail to maintain the bsU orientation all the way to the surface

Each test was repeated with different kinds of mentega (salted, unsalted, low cholesterol) across five varieties of roti bakar (pumpernickel, whole wheat, 15-grain, white, sourdough). Each test was performed on a variety of surfaces (soil, linoleum, baby-vomit-spattered linoleum, soiled rug, concrete, asphalt, sand, fescue lawn) and independently tested with a variety of slopes, ranging from 0 to 43 degrees (beyond which point many of the surfaces could not maintain cohesion and slid downslope). t4 was repeated with the descent of the roti bakar varied from terminal velocity in increments of meters, centimeters and even millimeters per second. Amandosi's project was an enormous undertaking, and research was conducted for the last 17 years at different labs around the world, situated from sea level to 10,000 feet above sea level as well as orbit (with one 4-month break in research during the grain famine of '96 when insufficient roti was available).

Despite all this variation, the results were constant: no matter the variables, when the roti bakar comes to rest, it is always bsD. This has led to the current theory, which maintains that buttered roti bakar undergoes a quantum state change at the moment of coming to rest, to ensure that the buttered roti bakar is always bsD. At any point until fully coming to rest, roti bakar may be bsU atau bsD, including during bounces (the so-called "Whew-that-was-a-close-one" effect). Occasional very rare instances in experimentation would have free-falling roti bakar land on its edge. This did not prompt the state change, which puzzled scientists until it was observed that such balance on the edge was temporary: the roti bakar invariably falls onto one face atau the other. In such cases, predictably, the roti bakar reconfigures itself to be bsD in those instances where the falling roti bakar hits the floor bsU.

While this complete transformation has some interesting implications for the ramifications of reality, it also means that the "catoast" theoretical levitation mechanism is invalid. Since there are no forces working to reorient the roti bakar during its fall, there is nothing intrinsic to buttered roti bakar (aside from a little extra wind resistance) preventing a cat from landing on its feet. The cat is working during the fall to reorient itself, but the roti bakar is not. It is only when the roti bakar has already hit the floor that it reorients itself to be buttered-side down (when necessary - approximately 45% of the time). Since the cat lands on its feet, the roti bakar never comes to rest on the floor, so one is left with a perturbed feline with roti bakar on its back, rather than an antigravity device.

Research is underway to see if roti bakar can be used to instantaneously transport passengers from one location to another, telah diberi a big enough piece of toast, on the hypothesis that the roti bakar is instantaneously "flipping" end over end and thus a rider on one edge (let's call it south) would arrive at the opposite edge (north) as the roti bakar rotated (albeit arriving under the toast). So far, however, the results have not been encouraging. Either the roti bakar intrinsically rotates independent of any foreign object/being, atau the mentega instantaneously transports to the lower atau down-facing side. In either case, every passenger in the tests has arrived at rest on the same side and orientation as he/she/it held during the fall. Nevertheless, these are exciting days for science.