[ He does not move to approach the terminal yet. Harold is not a physicist, theoretical or otherwise. That being said, he has far more than the average understanding of mathematics and subsequent theoretical physics.

In a strained voice, ] You can't ignore the uncertainty principle --

[ Okay. Maybe he can. Harold is standing on an alien planet with proven capabilities to transcend time and space. But it somehow feels different to have their mysterious captors implicated in that than the teenager standing in front of him.

This does imply Accelerator has, as he'd said, literally reality-altering powers, but that fact alone immediately raises more questions. ]

If it's all that abstract, [ he says sharply, ] why are you still here? Your injury is limiting your capabilities?