According to the Powerpoint presentation you saw when you first arrived, our worlds have been destroyed.

[He pauses. Pess rolls over on his back as if demanding more petting.]

CERES is trying to restore them and would supposedly stabilize them at times; that's what they told me after I managed to return home. It was exactly as it was when I left it.

[What Edgeworth doesn't mention is that when he left, he was sent to a different world entirely.]