Topher gives Daniel a skeptical quirked eyebrow at Daniel claiming Topher's is a simpler world. Topher knows exactly what's different between his own world and this one. And, of course, that even just the existence of the technology at Rossum has a 97% chance of causing the end of the world, and that he may well helped speed it along. The thing that actually lets him sleep at night is knowing that even though they may not have guaranteed the destruction of the tech, they've surely done a good job in delaying it, and undoing much of Topher's damage. And there are still plenty people back in his home universe making the effort to continue doing so. They're probably doing fine without him. Topher was always much at making the tech than destroying it.

It's probably a good thing he doesn't actually have time to ponder all this more than a few seconds, because he can't help but feel a little childish glee at Daniel rambling. And interesting stuff, too! See, this is why Topher was excited to meet him. Well, partly.

"Well, exactly!" he answers enthusiastically. "And that works on every level, too. You can find that same kind of microcosm if you limit it to just one country, one city, one family, one person, as long as you look close enough! The same kind of conflicts, motivations, self-preservation and self-advancement, it's important whether you're a tiny organism or a vast intergalactic empire. Like growth patterns; electrical firing between brain cells, growth of social networks, expansions of galaxies, they look similar even though they're on massively different scales. It's all complicated."