"But how can we be sure they weren't the ones doing the...um, tethering. Or...whatever it is?"

She couldn't confess to knowing what exactly the science was. This was way beyond her.

"Or is it the kind of thing that would need someone or something really powerful to do it?"

It did sound like something that went...deep. if something was quantum that meant it had to do with fundamental particles, right? That went all the way down to people atoms and things.