You can rewrite possibility? How does that-- I guess I don't expect anyone would fully know how it functions, that's sort of how these things tend to go, but that's... I wish I could see it, too. It sounds a little like something from my own-- well.

[a brief pause, a careful rephrasing.]

Certainly it isn't from our own world, we knew that much about it, but we encountered something similar. It was only with-- years of study that we were able to truly start learning much about it and its properties.