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Originally Posted by robj3

Altering the flow of time in large controlled volumes is far more violating of physics than the canonical magic tech.

Agreed, but it is an equal violation to Bruce jaunting through history in multiple timelines/dimensions.

Variation on the time bubbles can solve how they knew something would happen, and how they power their vehicles as well. I don't use the singularity power system (I use fusion but not at the vehicle level), but they can tie together.

Here is the relevant text from the alternate version

Future Knowledge and Time displacement

On Thursday, November 18, 1989, a research group operating in the Los Alamos lab in New Mexico made a breakthrough. They were following a line of inquiry based on a unproved relationship between electromagnetism and gravity, in the hopes of producing antigravity technology. What they found destroyed the lab, but the records survived.

They managed to construct a "tame" micro-sized black hole that would collapse when they stopped providing power to it. Stephen Hawking was brought in to try to figure out exactly what they had. During the course of that research, they discovered that by inserting probes at just the right angle and velocity, the probe would pass close enough to the event horizon to be propelled out of the "light cone" - and as it completed its orbit, it would fall back into our own space.

Attaching radio receivers and recorders to the probes was easy, and the research crews found that they were getting radio news stories from between 1 and 100 years in the future. They monitored it for 3 years, making quite a bit of money in the stock market in the process, when suddenly, they stopped getting any stories more than 50 years out. As time progressed, it became 49 years, then 48...

Obviously something would happen in 47 years that would take every radio station in the world off the air. Maybe it was a technological breakthrough that made radio obsolete - or maybe it was something very, very bad. No one knew, and it was too big a risk to just ignore.

A small group of scientist put forth a proposal to their superiors, and it went through channels. FEMA became involved, as well as other government agencies. Project Phoenix was born.

During the intervening 5 years of research, still trying to develop anti-gravity, the scientists taught their tame black hole a new trick - they could distort the flow of time in a given area, by a factor of about 700 to 1. While about two years would pass outside the field, only a day would pass inside.

Power

If you take six small gravity generators, and arrange so that the fields intersect in just the right way, two things happen. First, the gravity fields
cancel each other out before leaving the outside of the box you've put them in, and thus, the box seems inert from the outside. Second, a small
"cold point" forms in the center of the configuration. This cold point is a place were all matter and energy have been removed by "dragging"
it toward a gravity generator, resulting in a small zone of absolute, perfect, energyless vacuum. The universe does not like this. 'Nature abhors
a vacuum', and this kind of perfect vacuum just drives it totally nuts. As a result, in order to balance the normal chaos of the universe, a 'little bang'
occurs in the center of the zone of space. A pulse of electrons spontaneously accumulate, then look for something to ground to. By careful
placement of an anode grid, those electrons are captured and routed to capacitors where high energy pulses are stored and slowly drained to
charge batteries, thus powering the device and providing a steady stream of power output.

The smallest Zero Point Reactor (ZPR or 'Zipper') is about the size of a GM V6 engine, with similar power output. This is used in Project vehicles.
The next step up is a Zipper 2mx4mx1m used to power bases. Neither are particularly portable. Both have warnings about "No User Serviceable Parts Inside"

I would never say it is better than canon, I just found it slightly more plausible than the canon history of Bruce.

Edit I should note that I read "Phoenix Project" first and that might be why I connect with it. I do feel that the Morrow universe is amazing and I can see how people who read it first would connect to the original story.