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The statistics are wrong for it to be a superposition.

My suspicion is USB plugs and connectors are manufactured in a space that's an orientable double-cover of Euclidean space. Think of them as having rotation and charge. When the charge on the connector and the plug are opposite, they'll connect; when they're the same, they repel and the plug won't fit even though a naive geometrical analysis suggests it should. Rotating a plug through 360 degrees flips the sign of the charge and solves the problem.

By KK theory this is probably an extra hidden (compactified) dimension. So if we nuked a USB plug from orbit we probably be able to see the full 720 degrees.

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