Here is the text if the link doesn't work: > >Sunday, November 21, 2004 > >Los Alamos Hermit Booted Off Lab Property Spreads His Theories of the Cosmos > >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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