Mack would make strange decisions (which his coaches and players usually overruled), make inexplicable outbursts, and call for players from decades earlier to pinch-hit.
With the development of quantum chemistry in the 20th century, however, a vast number of previously inexplicable dimensionless physical constants "were" successfully computed from theory.
For the locals, work in the fields depends on a good harvest, and construction work seems determined by inexplicable economic forces outside of their control.