How does /sci/ feel about the current "crisis" in cosmology?

Basically, a recently published paper created models for a closed Universe structure and came back with huge discrepancies in the possible age of the universe. Using locally measured variables like cepheid candles and super novae distances gets a result of around 13.5 billion years, while using c and a traditional flat or open universe model gets you an age of around 14 billion years. In the past cosmologists basically just said, "its between 13.5 and 14 billion y/o but we dont know exactly."

However in recent years a closed universal model has been gaining popularity, particularly as we advance our understanding of quantum mechanics. If the Universe is closed then there is a 5 billion year discrepancy between the locally measured age of the Universe and the modeled age of the universe, which is completely inexplicable other than completely new physics we dont have any understanding of, or a complete break down of Newtonian/relativistic physics.

How does /sci/ feel about this?