***Retrieving previous sensor and activity logs…it appears to be a contact quantum device as encountered before…subjects place themselves in physical proximity to the outer surface, which appears to be an entangler system, modifying spacetime so that objects in proximity here are quantum entangled with similar or identical objects remote in space and time…thus entangled, such objects are transferred by unknown means to the location of the remote objects***

  “Can it get us home…back to our time and place…back to Mesa de Oro?” Winger asked.

  Here, the Doc swarm flared noticeably, as if in considering the question, he had to slam more atoms together to form a thought.