"If you consider a war-zone to be summer vacation," said Solomon dryly, and shrugged. "It makes logical sense, in as far as our knowledge of alternate realities extends. Time is a fluid and conditional thing. Being taken out of time would, from our perception, necessitate its apparent alternation or cessation altogether--but only in relation to the world from which we came, of course. Time here seems to move at a conventional pace. Perception again."

Not that Solomon was particularly interested in metaphysics for its own sake, but understanding it did tend to help him understand how the universes worked, and his research with regard to that was proceeding at a decent enough pace.