"Pardon?" the Director said.
"You're magically creating and destroying energy when you blip from one place to another and change energy states!" Justin said.
"I'm lost," Kurt said.
"No surprise," Tom muttered.
"It's in the math! You're using the same energy going laterally as you are going up or down! It's like an elevator that doesn't need power to move! It can't work!"
"But it does!" Denny said.
"That's why I said it appears you're violating Conservation of Energy. Maybe you are, but it's more likely that you're drawing energy from somewhere else."
"From where?" the Director asked, suddenly looking pale and slightly older.
"Oh Lord," Tom said, "it's Ed Wood time, again, isn't it? They're getting it from another dimension, and there's going to be this disastrous consequence, and the whole Earth will be get swallowed up, and yadda yadda yadda…"
Now it was Uncle Justin's turn to study the carpet.