Serendipity and Abduction in Proofs, Presumptions and Emerging Laws

Serendipity, in science, is the ability to discover, invent, create, or imagine a finding — a hypothesis, an explanation, a rule, a theory, a law — without deliberately having looked for it. This aptitude involves an ability to give a justifiable interpretation of unexpected, incomprehensible, or unqualifiable facts with a given reference system. There are numerous examples of serendipity, not only in science, but also in technology and art) Such fortuitous findings are generally thought to be the result of a “chance observation” or the result of emerging norms that may evolve in a more or less chaotic way through an underlying principle that can be discovered through a meticulous interpretation of the data.