There is something that rings true about the metaphor. Discovery is mostly an incremental process of trial and error around a neighborhood which occasionally pr

There is something that rings true about the metaphor. Discovery is mostly an incremental process of trial and error around a neighborhood which occasionally probes a new opening and then there is a rush of activity in that new plane. The simplest mathematical model of this might be a Levy flight [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9vy_flight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9vy_flight