mmmh... Maybe the “golden quarter” was just a coincidence of findings and engineering feats that only owes its success to pure chance. I mean: if scientific b

mmmh... Maybe the “golden quarter” was just a coincidence of findings and engineering feats that only owes its success to pure chance. I mean: if scientific breakthroughs follow some kind of poisson law distribution by discipline, then it is bound to happen that multiple breakthroughs that are completely independent will happen during a relatively small period.