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Category: Explanations that arrived and were not adopted

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The list below is believed complete, though membership – like everything here – is subject to revision.

  • The age of the Earth – Kelvin cooled the planet from first principles and got twenty-four million years. His own former assistant had the right answer in 1895, and let it go.
  • Min Min light – The light that follows travellers across western Queensland. Shown in 2003 to be a mirage of a car 300 km away, and still officially unexplained.

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