Ah...but the slime molds were several hundred years ahead of the others and therefore knew that the scientific paradigm the others held onto was in error and not correct in many of its assumptions. Just as some thought the world was flat, so do these less advanced creatures think their laws of physics are inviolate and that they know what the state of play is at. Yes, pathological science had been outlawed, but what is to one lot pathological science is commonplace normality to the other. As the slime molds explained to the others, never assume you have all the answers or know what the facts are because invariably history ends up proving you wrong, no matter how sacrosanct you believe your physics might be. Your knowledge changes over time and therefore your paradigm is shifting all the time. What you consider impossible at one stage may become possible for you at another and conversely what you deemed appropriate science and theory at present may turn out to be bunkum in the future.
Or so the slime mold said
Speaking through an interpreter