Dear Mom,

I was talking with Lynn the other day and he said he saw you at Mark's house one day, several weeks ago.  You told him that you just didn't understand me, so I thought I would try to explain a few things.  I feel that I am just doing my best to live up to the values that you taught me as a child.  You taught me that things were not important, but rather love.  I have thought a great deal about my childhood and the things that influenced me in different ways.  Here is the story that I'm going to tell.  To the best of my abilities, it is the way that I remember things.  What I'm sure of, is these are the principles by which I'm driven and if you understand my thoughts, then you understand me.

When I was very little, there were several events that ended up shaping my life.  The beginning of my part of the story starts in the early '50s as I entered school for the first time.  Shortly after this the first event occurred.  We had been going to school for a number of weeks, as I remember it, and then one day, we studied the stars.  My teacher told me that the stars were actually suns just like our own, except that they were very far away and that is why they looked so small.  She said they might even have planets like ours and people like us living on them.  This really made me think.

That night, we went to get dad at work.  I think we had some kind of old Ford, but I remember that when we got back, I got out of the car and started around the back of the car.  I was sitting behind dad on the passenger side of the car.  When I got to the back of the car, I looked up and saw the stars, in some ways for the first time.  You were just getting out of the driver's door when I asked you, "How far do they go?"  In the cold clear air of the autumn, the stars were everywhere and you could clearly see the Milky Way, since there were no streetlights near by.  You looked up as you followed my gaze and said, "They go on forever." That seemed about right to me and that thought has been instrumental in the making of the person that I am today.  I think an infinite cosmos model is one of the most important concepts we can teach our children.  Right now, science believes that the cosmos is finite, having an edge and limits.  It is much better to teach our children that they are born into an infinite cosmos and therefore there are no limitations put upon them by the cosmos, only the limitations that they put upon themselves.  Now science teaches a finite cosmos with all kinds of limitations (including miracles) and that is not healthy in mankind's rapid rise to full awareness. 

The next event occurred about the same time.  I don't know if you remember, but one day, you sat me down and told me that I was a Christian and that Christians did two things.  First they read their Bible every day.  Second, they prayed every night for those things that are important and for those things that we want.  As a child, I didn't know what things were important, so I only prayed, "Dear God, let me do something important."  But as you now know, I did know what I wanted in those early days.  From that moment standing behind the car, I knew that I wanted a star, or a piece of one.  I was fascinated by all things concerning science and I loved nature with all my heart, spirit, and soul.  So that prayer was answered when I found the meteorite on the ranch that day.  It will someday be regarded as the first identified living meteorite and will do much to change the perspective of all humanity concerning itself and the rest of the cosmos.  But in the end, I don't think it will be the most important thing I do.

I think the answer to my other prayer, "Please let me do something important" will come from my work in space and time.  All my life I have tried to understand how nature worked.  I have never liked to compete with other people.  I am very competitive, yet I found out long ago, that I don't get any enjoyment from winning over another human being.  It makes me sad that they have lost.  I don't like losing myself, so I can never win in a competition with other human beings.  But what I have liked to do was to compete with nature.  To me, the desire to understand is like a competition, except a competition that is always fair.  When two people compete, there is always one that is better than other.  Also, the rules may change or be viewed differently by the different sides.  But nature is always true, always the same, and never cheats.  To me, that is a fair contest. So not knowing what was important, I decided to try to look at things from the largest perspective that I could.  As a child and as an adult, when I wanted to think about important things, I would close my eyes, and in my mind's eye, rise up above the Earth until I could see it floating below me.  Then I would rise further until I could see the solar system floating below me.  Then I would rise even further until I could see our entire galaxy laid out below me.  Then and only then did I begin to think about those things that would be of interest to anyone that shared my viewpoint, looking down upon our galaxy cluster.  

So I have asked God and nature to reveal to me how the system works.  You know that I have excelled when I have been in academic situations.  I have learned what others have told me and I have been able to regurgitate it on the proper tests and forms.  But as I have learned from my academic experiences and the experiences of life, including your cure from cancer, I have come to understand that science is falling short of its goal of explaining everything.  The models used by science to represent reality weren't complete.  My whole life has been about the proposition of completing those models.  I have openly and honestly looked at all the physical evidence that has been accumulated by humanity.  Then I looked at all of the rules and their assumption.  Then I just let the "chips" fall where they may. My years of working on logical computer problems allow me to be aware of my assumptions and to change them and the associated logic as needed.  I've never cared how nature worked, only that I understand the process.  God has answered this prayer and I think it is the answer to "Please let me do something important."  It is not an easy job, but it is the job that I have been given.  My own personal comfort is really not important to me.  The survival of mankind is important.  Therefore, I work for what I consider to be God's work and not my own.  It would be much easier for me to get a little job somewhere and live only for my own joy of nature.  But that is not how I can best help humanity.

One of the consequences of reading my Bible every night is that it caused a great question to repeat in my mind.  As I read the Bible, I saw that Jesus made many miracles happen.  He also told us that we could make the same miracles, if just we believed strong enough.  This made me think a great deal about miracles and their relationship to science.  Could there be a miracle in my lifetime, or did they just happen in the old days of the Bible.  And what was the relationship between miracles and science.  At first they seemed to be at odds.  How could one have miracles in a world of science, where everything had to be predictable?  The minister at the church helped me get a good start when he told me that religion and science were both searching for the truth, but just from different perspectives.  However, that wasn't enough.

Then the meteorite landed on the ranch and my prayer for a piece of space had been answered.  From that moment on, I concluded that God did answer our prayers and that miracles did still happen in our time.  After all, if one calculated the probability that I would ask for a meteorite and then get one, it would seem to be incalculably small that it would happen by accident.  Of course, as I have studied what I now call the Frass Meteorite, I have realized what a real miracle it is.  It is far more rare an event than I could have ever imagined, since it represents the first identified life from another world.

The benefits of humanity learning the gravionic model are far more important than the discovery of life on another world.  The gravionic model allows us to understand the relationship between all things that exist, so it has benefits even in our daily lives.  The model explains the relationship of gravity and the different energies that are transported through this system.  Some of these energies are the energies of love that Christ taught and that he told us we could master.  In the end, I think the gravionic model will help all human beings better understand their energy flows and how these flows relate to spiritual events, which are included as real events under the gravionic model.  So in essence, this model "marries" together what was once just called science and the entire religious community, which I think should be called spiritual rather than religious.  Religion is a method of obtaining spirituality.  Obtaining spirituality is important, however I'm not sure that everything that calls itself a religion is being spiritual.  The gravionic model helps people test this process and so I think that science and religion will both benefit from this model and the more complete understanding of reality that it brings.

I guess you wonder why I live without material benefits and the answer lies in your very teachings.  You taught me that spiritual matters were important but that material things weren't important.  You taught me to do what Jesus would do.  So all of my actions are based on these principles.  Since I am the only one that knows the gravionic model, there are many issues that I can think about in new ways that no person has ever considered.  This gives me a tremendous responsibility to mankind.  In essence, I have to think for all of humanity on some of these issues.  So I don't think it important that I have a lot of things, because working at a regular job would mean that a great deal of my time could not be devoted to thinking about important issues.  I don't mind working, as long as it is something that directly takes me to my goal.  However my goal is to bring this new model of science to humanity and it's not perfectly clear how to find the best way to accomplish this.  I am a very slow thinker, having to try to cover every thought that has been made about science.  Therefore, I look at many variations of every subject and this takes a lot of time.  So sometime years go by before I look up, and I'm still trying to figure out how to bring this productive model to humanity.  I've finally decided that I must re-enter the academic community and begin the process of obtaining a Ph.D. in the Philosophy of Science.  I will be applying to a number of institutions before the end of the year.  Please pray that I am successful.  Then I can learn to publish my papers and have a chance to argue my positions on a regular basis with qualified "adversaries."

Mark said that he would like to read some of my work.  I am working on making a set of my papers for him to read.  I will try to get it done before Christmas.  He can pass it on to you when he is through, if you want it.  I write about many complex subjects, but I always try to write my arguments where all can understand, if they think they can.  It's like I said about teaching an infinite cosmos to the children.  If they believe in themselves, there is nothing they can't understand or accomplish.  Science and philosophy have both conspired to make many people think they can't understand important issues, but I think this wrong.  All of my work is designed for all people, including the "regular" people.  Anyway, I think you will find some of my work as interesting.

I hope this helps a little in understanding the black sheep of the Moore family.  But remember my slogan, "I'd rather be Moore than Einstein!"

Your loving son,

mmike