BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Voyager 'at edge of solar system'
Wow. Sometimes the achievements of man are astounding.
From another perspective its interesting to note how this achievement (or nearly achievement) is serendipity: a happy accident. Engineers built Voyager to last 5 years and here it is 21 years after that deadline still functioning and providing incredible information to scientists.
Innovation and creativity are so often bounded / linked to serendipity. At least that's what it appears. Perhaps in fact what we are really seeing is the application of complexity theory and in fact it is emergence that occurs: complex forces produces colesence around a certain attractor (or attractors) leading to a firm pattern. At the time it appears to be serendipity but in reality it is in fact emergent?
Posted by Paul Goodison at November 6, 2003 06:44 AM | TrackBack