I didn't, but it might be possible. [With everything he's inadvertently learned about traveling between worlds, he might actually be able to make something like this, given some time to actually sit in a research lab without needing to worry about being interrupted by someone trying to kill him, or his friends, or the rest of the world.

The question makes him smile as he traces a wire back into the depths.]

Well. Before we activated the accelerator. [And everything changed for the substantially worse.] Particle physics was my area, I wanted to understand how the universe worked, but Tess, she was the one who looked at the world and led the way. We...Tess and I started STAR Labs to research projects unconnected to the government, or commercial business interests. We started with clean energy.