It took a lot of self-control to keep from snapping at the redhead. Hojo actually didn't say anything for several moments; he didn't trust himself to, not without making a bigger fool of himself than he already had.

"What would you have me ask, then?" he asked after a rather long pause. "Different dimensions? Or plains of existance or whatever you want to call them?" He shook his head. "That's more believable than the idea that time has been operating according to a completely bizarre set of rules and no one's noticed before now."