My stories usually begin when I've read about some physics news that piques my interest. So, the narrative is generated from an explication and extrapolation of a science article. However, once I start, sometimes I have to go out and search for a possible physical effect to provide a solution to a problem that the narrative creates.
As I was writing the second novella in The Einstein Nexus, I found myself creating an area (I usually call them bubbles of time, since their effect is sphere shaped) of shifting time which became a danger, because unlike the former bubbles, this one didn't dissipate but grew. It turns out that if two time singularities are created at the same time in close proximity they will warp spacetime just like masses and orbit each other and continue to ever shift time. Who knew? Okay, got a problem to work through.
One obvious solution to stopping this disaster is to separate the time singularities. Separate, they will dissipate. Now the problem as I