Three goats instead of a ride-on mower, a river that became a legal person, water diverted towards Athens: fiction replaces neither data nor investigation. It gives a temporary shape to what remains scattered, then comes back to measurement.
A weak signal is not valuable for its novelty: it matters when it can be linked to other facts, placed in context and tested against reality. The article follows this passage, from the isolated signal to the novum, the divergence that tips into another system, through five sliders.