Daniel shakes his head and runs a hand through his hair. Topher thankfully seems to be very much in the know about the specifics of the Rift, or at least the questions that can be reasonably answered.

"It's incredible," he mutters, and forces himself to stop pacing because it's making him slightly dizzy. "I mean it's not particularly my area - actually you'd know that, wouldn't you, this is more Sam, er, Carter's thing - but the possibilities of this? It's like a, a less precise version of wormhole travel. And possibly irreversible, unless you can figure out some way to get the Rift to take you back which, as far as I can tell, isn't the most dependable process."