Well, yeah. [Here, have some technobabble from Julia. It's not anywhere near as advanced as something Rick or any of the science genius types would come up with, but anyone with a working knowledge of graduate/undergraduate level physics could easily follow along. The short of it being that there has to be something, be that energy or other theoretical force interfering with their first attempts to create their own form of energy to get the fuck out.] It's not that different from magic when [because you know Carver wants a very basic primer of metamath and circumstances in magic like how the placement of the moon and alchemical symbiology being used can affect the properties of spell work, right?]
We just have to find out what's interfering in the first place but so far figuring out even just the nature of that interference has sucked.