The way I've been looking at it is like worlds within worlds. Your whole thing is a bunch of worlds in one reality, but when you come through that portal it turns out there's actually a shitload of other realities that you never could've got to before.

[He's not exactly a scientist and he's certainly no wordsmith when it comes to explanations, but there are reasons he was picked for the IPRE mission.]

I've been to a hundred worlds that all worked pretty much the same, and then I showed up here and all of it's different. They're just new realities with their own weird rules. Your reality probably doesn't even touch mine, in like - a metaphysical sense.