# find (search)

to get a thing that was searched for in a place

- Computed level: L6 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: everyday  ·  Arena: find

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [get](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-get.acquisition), [search](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-search.action), [space](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-space.extent)

**Through:** the acquisition follows a search that occurs within a place

**Novel properties:**
- located result
- knowledge of location

## Examples
- The Arecibo Observatory's 1974 message was found by a telescope in Ukraine 27 years later during a SETI reanalysis. *(astronomy)*
- In 2012, physicists at CERN found the Higgs boson in collision data from the Large Hadron Collider after a 40-year search. *(physics)*
- Workers found a 1930 time capsule beneath Boston's State House during renovation work in 2015, where records said it was buried. *(urban)*

## Used by
- [memory](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-memory.cognitive) (L20)

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*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-find.search.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*