[hyperman1]

We've been in this situation before a few times. E.g. when geology was new, the earth was much too old, compared to what the heath radiating from it allowed. Chemical reactions were simply not up to the job over such long time spans.

We needed wild new physics, nuclear reactions, before things started to make sense. Everybody involved knew something was very wrong. A lot of ink was used trying to explain the error. But finally, the error was settled as a sidekick result from a completely different branch of science.