"Personally I'd rather go in for the pre-apocalypse utopia myself, but I do like a good disaster movie." It's a thoroughly poor joke, but one he apparently is pleased with - at least enough to shoot Henry a sidelong glance and an accompanying grin.

"Anyway, this wouldn't be the first time someone used something they didn't understand to win a bloody war. So long as this really is some kind of alternate dimension and mucking about in history isn't altering our own timelines-- well, either way I don't imagine we'll be around to see the consequences of it. Dead or gone by then." Though he has had some vague thought about how if they're changing history -- no matter how much the Initiative insists the changes are minor --, if that isn't slowing shifting this timeline farther away from wherever they've been pulled from. If this was a book, screwing with time to win a war would probably mean they'd end up trapped in Exsilium forever. Seems like the kind of dramatic irony a novelist would like.

Luckily he isn't one. Or a physicist -- so he's probably wrong all around.