Once the systemic problem was understood, the oncologists were able to space their appointments more evenly throughout the day, and all the patients could be treated immediately and finish their treatment without any extra waiting.
First introduced by Alan Guth of MIT in 1980 to explain (among other points) why the geometry of the universe appears to be flat and why matter is distributed so evenly throughout space, the theory also offered solid grounds for modeling how galaxies formed as the universe evolved.