Now I've gone and done it. Written myself into a corner all because I don't understand math and don't want to chain my short story characters to known laws of physics. Basically, I've written a dead story, a stillborn not completely formed, never to be.

Dang.

No doubt I'll try to find a way to salvage it, steer it away from the math and physics aspects so as to not insult anyone else with my utter and complete lack of understanding of either. Or I'll pluck out the two characters and drop them into something new, something different that doesn't involve the sciences. It's a shame really because after countless hours of science-y and physics-laden research including but not limited to Corona Discharges, Azimuths, Geomagnetic Pole Reversal, Statites, Spherules, Dyson Shells, Solar Sails, Telsa Coils, Magnetometer, Nanotechnologry, and Electromagnetic Ions, I thought I might have been onto something. I'll only be discouraged momentarily. No time to sit and whine about it.

But hey! We got that new and improved toilet installed.