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>Sunday, November 21, 2004 
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>Los Alamos Hermit Booted Off Lab Property  Spreads His Theories of the Cosmos 
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>By Adam Rankin
>Journal Staff Writer
>     LOS ALAMOS— Roy Michael Moore, aka the Los Alamos caveman, dropped out  of 
>the mainstream almost a decade ago, and though he has been largely  ignored for 
>the four years he's peddled his cosmological theories here,  he is a long way 
>from giving up on making the sale.
>    Discovered living in a cave on Oct. 13 in a deep canyon on U.S.  Department 
>of Energy property at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the  56-year-old Moore is 
>finally gaining the attention he's been seeking for  years. Someone from 
>Albuquerque wants to film a documentary about him  and a brief story about his 
>discovery appeared on Wired magazine online.
>    A Vietnam veteran who spent four years playing clarinet in a Marine  Corps 
>band in the late 1960s, Moore is hoping to shift the focus from  himself and his 
>cave dwelling to his life's work.
>    "I would sacrifice everything I own to get my story out," he said.
>    It was in 1996 that the former computer programmer and network manager  sold 
>all his possessions, abandoned his Amarillo, Texas, computer  business and 
>devoted all his energy to thinking deep thoughts.
>    "I served my time until my kids left home. When they left, I felt I had  no 
>more responsibilities," he said. Moore divorced when his oldest  daughter, now 
>26, was 8 years-old and his son was about 6.
>    "I didn't know a thing about business or making money," even though his  
>company employed 25 at one time and he used to bill $100 an hour for  programing 
>the computers he built and sold, he said.
>    Dissatisfied with computers, Moore said he felt he had bigger, more  
>important problems to work on.
>    So, the father of two, who calls himself "Micro Mike" because the  nickname 
>puts him in the context of the broader universe, started  walking and thinking.
>    Normal life "is a rat race, and as far as I can tell, the rats are  
>winning," he said. Besides, he said, "I never tried to be normal in my  life; it 
>is just another word for average to me and I want to be above  average."
>    At first, he walked around Amarillo, thinking about the cosmos, working  
>through Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. Then, he headed to  Socorro, 
>where he sought out sky watchers at the National Radio  Astronomy Observatory, 
>hoping he could discuss the newly developed  theory he dubbed the "gravionic 
>model."
>    The theory ascribes energy and spirituality to gravity— the  
>action-at-a-distance phenomenon that modern science has a hard time  fully 
>explaining.
>    "They said they didn't have a single cosmologist on staff," Moore said,  
>still clearly disappointed.
>    No takers there, he next traveled to Roswell, where for a short stint he  
>gave talks on a what he claims is a bowling ball-size Martian meteorite  he 
>found while working as a cowboy on his great-aunt's ranch in  northern Texas in 
>1971.
>    In Roswell, Moore met Lee Weinland, an independent video producer from  Los 
>Alamos who was intrigued by Moore and his story about the meteorite  and his 
>claims that it held evidence of complex life on Mars.
>    "I never have been able to get any scientists to do any tests on it,"  Moore 
>said.
>    Weinland, who describes Moore as an "eccentric genius," invited Moore to  
>Los Alamos where the two cooperated to produce a short video on the  meteorite 
>and Moore's theories on its Martian origin. That's when Moore  fell in love with 
>Los Alamos, according to Weinland.
>    "He fits up here in a lot of ways," Weinland said of Moore. "I believe  Los 
>Alamos is a town full of very common sense-challenged people and  Micro Mike is 
>one of them; very brilliant, but common sense  challenged... he is no whackier 
>than most of the physicists I know up  here."
>    So now Moore walks around Los Alamos and the Jemez Mountains. According  to 
>his figuring, he has logged more than 8,000 miles just walking and  thinking.
>    "Most of my life, I was afraid to be alone," Moore said. "But when I  
>started working on my gravionic model, I had to be alone."
>    Moore, who says he has many friends in Los Alamos who help him with food  
>and clothes, gauges the difficulty of the problems he tackles by how  far he 
>walks before solving them— a process he says is aided by smoking  marijuana.
>    When Moore was discovered living in his cave, federal authorities also  
>found 10 marijuana plants, each about 18 inches tall growing around the  cave.
>    "I think the laws that prohibit (marijuana) are unconstitutional,"  because 
>they infringe on his pursuit of happiness, Moore said. "I should  be allowed to 
>use it to solve problems that help humanity, rather than  be punished for it."
>    Los Alamos, with its thick population of Ph.D.s working at the weapons  
>laboratory, is a highly spiritual community and its great trail network  is "the 
>perfect place for me," Moore said.
>    "I would like to change the image of Los Alamos from the birthplace of  the 
>atomic bomb to the home of the gravionic model— wouldn't that be so  much 
>friendlier? Where spirituality is important?" he said.
>    The essence of Moore's theory is that gravity, acting through "gravions"  
>between any two masses, travels faster than the speed of light, and  defines 
>space and relationships between masses.
>    He says that all of nature takes place in a two-part process through  
>connections of gravity and exchanges of energy at or below the speed of  light. 
>"People make connections of gravity all the time, but no one is  aware," he 
>said.
>    "Spirituality," Moore said, "is really the management of those energies.  
>Love is the actions of a sentient being, whereby they make more  connections of 
>gravity than they break and give more energy than they  take."
>    The idea, Moore said, is not too different than the one proposed by  Obi-Wan 
>Kenobi in the first Star Wars movie: Everything is connected.
>    The world and society is going wrong, because more people are taking  than 
>giving, Moore said.
>    "I want to make everybody aware of these energy transfers," Moore said,  
>"and I think with awareness we'll become a much better society."
>    Moore says he is on a mission to spread his theory and be accepted as  the 
>hermit philosopher of Los Alamos, subsisting on as little as  possible and 
>devoting most of his energy to improving human society  through thought and 
>eventually, hopefully, the application of his  theories.
>    "I just dedicated myself to staying here forever until I die to try to  get 
>this work done," he said. "I am here on a good purpose."
>    The work has not been easy and his quarry— Los Alamos scientists— have  not 
>been receptive to his unifying theory of the cosmos, an idea that,  as far as 
>Moore can tell, can solve any and all problems from personal  depression to 
>anomalies of space and time.
>    "Talking to scientists is like banging your head against a wall," Moore  
>likes to say. "It only feels good when you stop."
>    But that doesn't keep him from trying.
>    
>'Not a nut case'
>    Crunching through about four inches of freshly fallen snow in a pair of  
>sandals and thick woolen socks, Moore recently walked out of the trees  on the 
>top of a 10,450-foot ridge and onto a stunning view of a  long-dormant volcano— 
>the backdrop to Los Alamos.
>    "I don't know, I was just brought up to believe philosophers wear  sandals," 
>he said. "People tell me I am crazy."
>    The caldera's grassy meadow stretches from rim to rim, punctuated by  
>ancient lava domes like giant camel humps.
>    "There were elk down there last time I was here," he said, but not this  
>day.
>    A broad smile unfolds across his white-bearded face; Moore likes his new  
>back yard.
>    Since federal authorities discovered him living in a cave in a deep,  wooded 
>canyon on LANL property, Moore has had to find a new place to  reside.
>    "I had to get above DOE property; apparently, they are pretty particular  
>about their property," he said.
>    He's chosen some National Forest land, part way up the volcano's eastern  
>rim, overlooking much of the 40-square-mile laboratory, its mesas  reaching 
>toward the Rio Grande and, beyond, to the well-worn and  snow-capped Sangre de 
>Cristo Mountains.
>    But now, instead of his former solar-powered cave— which was complete  with 
>satellite radio, marine battery powered LED lights and a  sophisticated 
>ventilation system— Moore's shelter is a borrowed tent in a  ponderosa glade, 
>where he spends his time communing with ravens when he  isn't walking the ridges 
>above, pondering the complexities of the  cosmos and human foibles.
>    "It's a lot harder to understand humans than it is to understand  nature," 
>he said.
>    Broad-shouldered and with muscular legs, the stocky, white-haired Moore  has 
>an appearance reminiscent of those Swedish garden gnomes, maybe  Santa Claus. 
>He's even got the personality and charisma to go with it.
>    "He really is fun to know, he is a jolly guy," said Dee Morrison, who  
>worked with Moore for about two years at the Los Alamos Music store. "He  should 
>be a Santa Claus, except he doesn't like red. He wants to be a  blue Santa 
>Claus."
>    She said Moore encourages people to act in a brotherly fashion, think  
>outside the box and challenge their assumptions.
>    "I think the thing he wants most is for people to listen to his  theories, 
>to give him a real solid listening and to put aside their  preconceived notions 
>and really listen to what he says," she said. "I  don't know whether he is 
>right, but they certainly are interesting  ideas."
>    Weinland, who often invites Moore to his home for dinner, said that,  once 
>people have a chance to talk with Moore, they love him.
>    "They know that he is not a nut case," he said. "He is the most kind and  
>generous man to people and he has great respect for everybody."
>    Moore will sit and talk with anyone who is willing, Weinland said. "He  will 
>spend days with people, just talking about philosophy, about  reality, music, 
>gravity, love, typical philosophical topics," he said.
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