[Ed's just going to hang around until Jack finds an appropriate table, because he didn't spot any on the way here and doesn't feel like admitting his lack of observation to some stranger.]

You've never heard of alchemy and you think I'm the ignorant one?!

[But the other world was the same way, right? A place where they stopped studying alchemy a long time ago and used machines to do everything it would normally be used for. It's totally plausible that there could be more than one of them. Strange, but plausible.] Doesn't matter. I guess this really is a different world, huh. ...But I don't see how machines could create life any more than alchemy can. That's more than just alchemy, it's nature.