"Fair enough. Although I'm going to keep on being disturbed that a guy with a horn coming out of his forehead has harnessed the power to alter matter at will."

He picks up the sole book on the coffee table -- the one on theoretical physics -- and flips the edge of the pages against his thumb. "What's your take on this place, then? String theory? Parallel universes? Or am I still looking at this through the myopic lens of the 20th century?"