What are some major scientific discoveries where luck played a big part? Much like the discovery of antibiotics by Fleming

File: 484 KB, 640x480, 1565928634720.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Tue Sep 17 11:22:38 2019 No.10980553 [Reply] [Original]

What are some major scientific discoveries where luck played a big part? Much like the discovery of antibiotics by Fleming

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 11:26:32 2019 No.10980557 >>10980553 The first detection of the big bang background noise.

Anonymous Tue Sep 17 11:35:12 2019 No.10980567

>>10980553

The Navier-Stokes equations from viscous flow were discovered first by empirical study with just passing water through a brass cylinder.

I think the equations were developed later to describe the observed behaviour and still not fully solved.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 11:56:45 2019 No.10980615 >>10980553 The cooking power of microwaves (the waves, not the device) were discovered when a radio operator absent-mindedly left some foodbags in front of a microwave-generating device.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 12:37:32 2019 No.10980690 >>10980553 Vulcanized rubber

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 22:23:08 2019 No.10981926 Planck's constant. He basically decided to start plugging in numbers until he found a pattern

Advanced search
Text to find
Subject [?]Search by post subject. Leave empty for any.
Username [?]Search for user name. Leave empty for any user name.
Tripcode [?]Search for tripcode. Leave empty for any.
Email [?]Search by email. Leave empty for any.
Filename [?]Search by image filename. Leave empty for any.
From Date [?]Enter what date to start searching from. Format is YYYY-MM-DD
To Date [?]Enter what date to start searching until. Format is YYYY-MM-DD
Image hash
Search in	All Posts OPs Only
Deleted posts	Show all posts Show only deleted posts Only show non-deleted posts
Internal posts	Show all posts Show only internal posts Show only archived posts
Order	New posts first Old posts first
Capcode	All Posts Only by Users Only by Mods Only by Admins Only by Developers
Results	Posts Threads
Action	[ Simple ]

/sci/ - Science & Math