The Rolling Stones Surprise after 50years of keeping us Rockin'

I just saw the Rolling Stones live and finding words to capture the emotions that were flying around the claustrophobic space of the echoplex last night is a task doomed to failure but well worth the attempt.

First off, I'm aware that this folk tale is one of those big fish stories that nobody actually wants to hear. "Don't tell me how lucky you feel for winning the lottery you jerk!" But if you saw Paul Bunyon sack the city of Troy while riding atop Ahab's whale than you would feel a similar compulsion to describe what you saw. 

GETTING A TICKET

One of the key contributing factors to the electricty in the air was the nature of how the tickets were given out. Announced over twitter and radio stations at the very last minute, the surprise show's limited 312 ticket give away caused an instantaneous buzz that turned into a strangely manic desperation and jealousy that I could only compare to footage of people waiting to hear if they made the cut at the city wide American Idol auditions. The tickets were given through a random lottery at the El Rey Theater on Wilshire blvd. in Los Angeles and the line went all the way around the block. 

After a couple thousand people they cut off the line and turned all new comers away. I walked around filming, listening, and speaking to people from all over who each had a uniquely interesting story about how they ended up there and how badly they wanted to see the Stones. Some got a text from someone at work, a couple heard an announcement and happened to be driving near by. A lady had flown in from Japan and group had driven in from Texas because it is apparently a Rolling Stones tradition to do a show in or around the city where they are rehearsing for their upcoming tour. Some had been camped out all night. Some saw a tweet and instantly rushed over. I happened to be walking my dog and saw the hysteria because I live next to the El Rey Theater. In the above photo, they are giving out the lottery tickets that were sitting in a bucket.

This is mine. Welcome to the 50th Hunger Games I kept joking.
Just getting one was an emotional ordeal. Because I took an instant to take my dog home, the line got cut off. They said to go home because they weren't going to give any more lottery tickets out. Myself and about 20 other people said fuck you, we're going to stay hear until they force us to leave. "Look at all of us, clinging to improbably hope." said Sarah, the girl behind me, pointing at the low heads that were walking back to their cars. But when the lottery tickets came around, they gave us, the faithfully desperate a ticket like all the others. None of us could believe that we got a ticket. We had a chance. The journey for us was not over. Hope still existed.

We spent the hours of waiting discussing the random unlikely chains of events that brought us each into that line. Every person had their own story. If I hadn't walked my dog. If my mom hadn't called and my phone hadn't died then I wouldn't have started walking home. If. If. If. But here I am we all said. Each person talked about why they would kill to see them. "I saw them in '79...", "...that song changed my life", "...It's the fucking rolling stones". We were bonding over our mutual yearnings. The value of the opportunity was rising through the roof as the reality of unlikely hood approached. Sarah and Shane the people behind me discussed how it was like getting your college acceptance envelope. You kinda don't want to open it. While it's still sealed, you might be going. After you open it, you might not. Try to imagine the hours of anticipation. Staring at my blue lottery ticket was like looking at the college acceptance letter to the smallest most exclusive school of Rock & Roll with an enrollment of 300 every 50 years.

When they finally called out the numbers we were surrounded by the most drastic range of anguish and elation. Tears were shed. There were screams. HighFives. One girl offered all the money she had for our winning tickets. I said, "I like money... But I love the stones more". One guy sold his ticket for $1000 to a guy that lost. The thing was, once you got your ticket, it was in your name and attached to your ID, so there would be no way to transfer it. Willy Wonka's Golden Ticket was for you and you alone.

They let all of the winners into the El Rey theater and explained the rules. No transferring or tampering. Absolutely no cameras, phones, or recording devices tonight. But we were definitely in. The guy in front of me was literally shaking because his body was pumping with so much Adrenalin, Saratonin, Oxytocin and natural endorphins. Everyone was so excited and felt like it was the luckiest day of their life. This is what made the show so much more exciting than it already would have been and it hadn't even started yet. The journey around that small block of miracle mile made a rock concert feel like a miracle.

We were the happy few whom the cosmic hand of fate had decided to deal the high five of a lifetime. 

THE SHOW

News vans and on lookers surrounded the Echoplex in Silverlake as though a meteor with Jesus' face had struck the theater. The Gods of Rock were descending tonight and we were the children allowed to tour the factory. One guy started to talk about how hard it was to take a shower and get dressed while keeping his precious wristband dry so that it wouldn't look tampered with. About 20 people in line near him all started laughing because every single person had done exactly the same thing. We were a merry band bonded at the wrist.

I had never been to the echoplex before. The inside was surprisingly tiny. I wondered if 300 people would even fit inside.

The reality and significance of the moment started to sink in. The Rolling Stones formed in London in 1962.

They've been playing together for over 50yrs. They're almost as old as Rock & Roll itself. They've had more than my entire lifetime to become the very best at what they do. When they started, Rock & Roll was a baby. Hell, the beatles formed in 1962. One can't really measure the impact of their contributions to music and culture. And here they are, about to play the first show of their "Fifty years and counting" tour. How are they still even playing? It has to be a completely different thing than they were in their youth. If I got to see magic Johnson playing basketball, there's no way it would be the same kind of thing it was in his prime. The guy behind me in the crowd said he had seen them 12 times in his life. I met a guy named Steve Schindler who first saw them in 1972 at Madison Square garden and took every opportunity over the years to see them.

If you want to play the music while you read, I compiled the set-list on Spotify here:
http://open.spotify.com/user/emotiondesigner/playlist/0Mea8maauUzJWJu5jG3RCW


And then they came out.
Mythical Creatures. Demigods. Time Capsule. Legends. Folk Heros. Larger than life. Epic.

They kicked things off with "You Got Me Rockin". 
The foreplay of the days lottery made the room erupt. What a brilliant way to kick things off. Not just because they are the living legends of Rock & Roll singing about having us Rockin'. I thought it was brilliant because Mick Jagger is singing about times when he was down. A butcher with bloody hands, a pitcher in a slump, A hooker loosing her looks, but now "you got me rockin". Whether the meta meaning was that he's old but seeing the excitement in fans like us gets him rockin or us singing it back meant that when we can't pay the bills and get our taxes straight, rock & roll picks us up it was poignant moment that took 50 years to ferment.
These were not old men holding on to a past that was gone. Dare I say it after only seeing them for the first time, but the rolling stones have only gotten better with age like a fine wine. If you play guitar for 50 years in front of thousands of people, you're not going to suck. Seeing Keith Richards whale away on his guitar with his signature headband holding back grey hair was unbelievable. The difference between the Stones and a 50yr old band who's glimmer had long gone out, was the evident passion for their music. This is what these old dogs do. They've done it forever. They'll probably never change their tricks. Coming off of coachella where a couple (unnamed) surprisingly disappointing performances put this into perspective. The unnamed artists was going through the motions as if singing that album for a couple years in front of a few thousand people had become a day job that's lost it's luster. Not the case with the Stones. They're love of Rock beat our chests as hard as anyone possibly could because their passion for it was as alive and real as the non holographic versions of themselves were in front of me.

Next they played "Respectable". 
"Well now we're Respected in society, We don't worry about the things that we used to be"
Once again Brilliant.
I started to notice the lack of phones, cameras and ipads glowing in my field of view. It felt classic. It felt oldschool. This was going to be an analog experience with no record button. Which was so respectable. I realized that I was going to have to commit my notes and the set list to memory instead of playing back a recording or reviewing notes in my phone. So I committed them to memory and vowed to write them on a napkin as soon as the show was over.

I did pretty good. I only forgot to write down "Start Me Up" and "Live with me".

Next they played "She's so cold". 
I only had a few songs on my "I really hope they play"-list. One was "She's so cold".
He describes his unrequited love as a bleeding volcano. Too much music today is catchy but not nearly as well written as She's so cold. Nor is it as well performed.
The crowd was dancing and singing their hearts out. Myself included.
I recently concluded that a good song is like a photograph of emotion. Seeing it performed live differs because everyone singing along with you knows those words because they have poured their hearts out to them when they have felt that way. The mouths in that room were bleeding volcanos in agreement over the feeling of loving someone who's just not hot for you back.

"Live with Me".
Live with me begs a woman to commit to living together. The way Jagger sang it was seductive as hell.
Can you imagine the Mojo and sex appeal of hips that have seduced thousands of women at a time, in stadiums the size of madison square garden for 50 years without stopping? He's had 50 years to figure out which dance moves get the panties thrown on stage. Mick Jagger's seductive moves belong in a vault with James Brown's feet, Elvis' hips, and michael Jackson's crotch. We watched them animate to Bobby Key's sexy saxaphone. Every girl in that room wanted to Live with Mick Jagger. It was so good I found myself considering it.

He followed live with me with "Street Fighting Man".
Another of my all time favorites. "'Cause Summer's here and the time is right for fighting in the street, boy But what can a poor boy do Except to sing for a rock 'n' roll band...There's just no place for a street fighting man". Rock & Fucking Roll!!! Play the song and picture them fighting the burdens of blue collar life with the real spirit of Rock & Roll.
I can't tell you how funny Mick Jagger was in between songs. He said it's great to be in echo park. The neighborhood that's always about to come up. Everyone started laughing. He could connect with the audience at street level.

They slowed things down and went into "How Strong My Love is".
Holy Fucking shit! This is why you see music live. The song was so different from the recorded version. He got right up to the very front of the stage cat walk. Crouching low, he was whispering to the people in front of him. Those lucky assholes probably knew what it was like for Mick Jagger to be in Love with them. The variance in his singing had so many distinct moments and he was all over the stage. Probably my personal favorite performance of the night. Mostly because I was so wowed by how unique the delivery was and how well he milked the crowd for participation.

Then he said I want to sing some covers and wanted to start with a Chuck berry song and he sang "Little Queenie".
The Rolling stones singing Chuck Berry. If time travel is at all possible, the secret formula involves Mick Jagger.

Then he said he was going to sing a song by the Temptations. He sang "Just My Imagination".
Everyone in the house was singing along. A beautiful song with it's origin in MoTown. Performed by the Stones who had made in their own. Singing about a dream of a girl with the Rolling Stones definitely was a dream, but thankfully it wasn't my imagination.

"Miss You".
Bill Wyman's skill on bass shined on this song. I really enjoyed the "Ooooh oooh oooh" sections.
Jagger would get one side of the crowd going and then he'd move over to the other and taunt them into it.

They brought out Mick Taylor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Taylor
He started to sing "Love in Vain".
It was like he was telling a story to his grand kids. Mick Taylor's slide guitar was probably the best I'll  ever see. There was real soul in it. The picture of pain that it painted was vivid.

Next they did "Midnight Rambler", still with Mick Taylor on stage.
It really rocked. Mick Jagger is a real Boss with his harmonica. I mean, he's dancing around and whaling away at the same time. The contrast of blues and Rock is like a well balanced flavor profile on
a fine dining dish. Unbridled cathartic anger release and painfully sad soul. What was really cool was watching the guys on guitar truly enjoy themselves. You could tell how much fun jamming together is. They really love doing this. It's like seeing someone not only in their element but you're watching truly gifted men do what they were meant to do. The joy of this was on their faces.

They finished the show with "Start Me Up".
In the largest celebratory moment of the night, the crowd sang in complete unison. It's the song that the bathroom attendant who doesn't speak complete english knows the words too. I couldn't see him but I bet he was holding his towel and singing his heart out with us. It was also climactic apex of the journey.
Mick Jagger made sure to work the entire crowd for all their participations worth. Any performer could learn something from watching how well he did that and how easy it was for him. Mick Jagger doesn't beg you to participate in singing Start me Up, he commands you on how he wants you to sing it.

Then Keith whispered in Jagger's ear. He turned to the crowd and said, "Keith said that's it so I guess we're outta here". They ran off stage.

The crowd jumped into the traditional ritual of asking for one more song. They came back out at the peak of unison chanting to a gushing of joy. Jagger made a joke about of course they're going to do one more and everyone laughed.

"Brown Sugar".
I don't know why the rolling stones tasted so good exactly but something that made them sweeter was the way that Jagger would pick sections of the crowd to do the "yeah, yeah, yeah" and get them to throw their hands up for the "Wooooo". Until he finally had everyone doing it. At this point we knew this might be the last moments of this experience so everyone was savoring up as much as they could dancing and singing along as though the waiter is about to take your bowl of soup away and you're not embarrassed to slurp.

They ended the show with "Jumpin Jack Flash".
Things were hard but it's all right now. And indeed as he talked about his past, and the present being a gas, I felt that no matter how bad things have been, it's alright.
The power of Rock & Roll manifest. I don't know when I will be as alright as I was jumping to jumpin jack flash with the Rolling Stones and the 300 friends I made that night. It was precious and special.

Jagger said this is the first show of our new tour, and it's probably the best one! For all of you out there who weren't in that room, let's hope not. If you can afford it or make it work, go see the Rolling Stones on this tour. They had 50 years to get it right. You will feel as lucky and special as we did no matter what venue and who you're with. They are the Rolling Stones. For the next 50 years and counting I hope they...

Keep me Rockin

-MM

The Place Beyond The Pines: A Review

When I first saw the trailer for "The Place Beyond the Pines" I thought, what an amazing idea for a film; "A modern day western heist-movie that pits the moral ambiguities of cop and robber against each other. It's probably like 'The Departed' or 'Heat' set in a small town and would probably be a lot like watching 'The Town' if the gunslinging robinhood hero road a dirt bike for a steed."
Boy was I wrong. It was more of a triptych 3 act play that I could only attempt to describe by calling it an almost Shakespearean mosaic of paternal duty and consequence, trailing the generational echoes of why men try to do good things but end up doing bad things, and how their choices determine not only what sort of man they become but what kind of legacy they leave in their wake.

THE STORY
"The Place Beyond The Pines" is the Iriqouis translation of 'Schenectady', which is also the town in NY where the film takes place. The film begins with Luke (Ryan Gosling), one of  the carnaval workers that rides a motorcycle inside of a spherical cage. He taunts death. Ladies in the theater will swoon. Romina (Eva Mendes) did and their encounter presents Luke with the catalyst that propels our story into action that puts Gosling on a fast paced motorcycle heist collision course with Avery Cross (Bradley Cooper).

THE ACTING
Everyone in this film is Stellar. Which is saying a lot for a film that boasts the presence of Ray Liotta, Rose Byrne, Chronicle's Dane DeHaan, and Treme's Mahershala Ali. Bradley Cooper is great. He plays his heroic good cop straight with the right amount of emotional gravity to pull you into his predicament. Ryan Gosling is the standout. His presence is so great, that I almost unanimously heard people wish he was on screen more than he was. Critics seem to have found the film to be unbalanced. If so, I would contend that it's mostly because Gosling and his partner in crime Robin (Ben Mendelsohn) are so enjoyable to watch on screen that when they step aside to let the story continue, their absence is too noticeable. Which brings me to a brief tangent about how you need to know who Ben Mendelsohn is. His performance here, along with his junkie in "Killing Them Softly" and his pompous british bad guy in "The Dark Knight Rises" have convinced me that he is one of the most talented Character actors of the now. I'm going to go out and see "Animal Kingdom" and I can't wait to see what he does in more films to come.

THE STYLE
The writer/director Derek Cianfrance is the same guy who teamed up with Gosling to create Blue Valentine. You can expect the same sense of realism here. The beautiful cinematography of Sean Bobbitt who also worked on "Shame" puts you right in the room so close to the actors that you can count the film grain. The shots of Gosling on his bike are as kinetic and wild as the character it can't quite catch in the frame. The one I love the most is Gosling riding down an empty road between the trees as Mike Patton's beautifully haunting piano melody gives you the sense of sadness and remorse that Cianfrance has woven into the film. Unlike 'Blue Valentine' the story here is linear. Only the focus is split among the Men in the film so that we learn more about the consequences of actions instead of the growth of an individual character. Critics like to use the word ambitious when they don't like a director moving out of the cinematic comfort zone. In this case I call Cianfrance's ambition brave and for my tastes worth the risk.

CONCLUSION
I can't get into too much detail without giving away key plot points, but what I can say is that the film is smart. A highlight for me was the matching shaky hand held photography of Gosling and Mendelsohn on bikes to show us how they recognized each other as kindred spirits.

Critics will say that the third act loses steam, but I found the 3 act structure necessary to show us who Luke really is. The Film opens on his torso covered in tattoos as he flips a butterfly knife. This is what the film is ultimately about. Who is this man? What drives him? What made him this way? The rest of the film tries to answer these questions.  By the end we know exactly what creates a man like Luke and how alternative paternal role models can lead to a man like Avery without ever having made one flash back.

Cinefiles may get more out of it than the average movie goer looking to be entertained by two big movie stars going head to head. The Place Beyond the Pines is a far place beyond the civil normalcy of nationally-distributed-film narrative that teaches us the majesty of the wilderness that unburdened-by-box-office storytelling holds and consequently reminds us why most movie goers and critics will prefer to stay in the comforts of popcorn-movie civilization. While walking out of the theater, I heard a mixture of pleasure about the acting, displeasure about the 140min length, and confusion over the meaning. Most people will have the same reaction. If you're the type of person who likes going to a play or reading an ambitious novel, then you might enjoy the film as much as I did. Regardless, I think everyone would do well by seeing The Place Beyond The Pines because it is likely to be one of the better films that is going to be out in a year that includes Star Trek, Iron Man 3, The Great Gatsby, Man Of Steel, World War Z, Oblivion, To The Wonder, Elysium, Before Midnight, Trance, and Gravity. 

-MM

My Theory on Gravity: Superstrings vibrating in (n)dimensional space

This is my attempt to explain my theory on Gravity as briefly as possible in "layman's" terms without math and with crude diagrams.

Why should you care?
Because as far as I can tell by google, it is an original idea that makes a lot of sense. Plus, if I'm right, then we might some day have flying cars and hover boards.


I think gravity is a biproduct of energy's interaction in (n)dimensional space. 
As strings of energy vibrate in multi-dimensional or (n)dimensional space, they make ripples in space-time itself. Because space-time is (n)dimensional, the way that these ripples overlap in 3dimensional space, alters or curves the super-positions of these strings. 

The resulting curvature of these strings and subsequent curving of (n)dimensional space-time is observed in our 3dimensional vantage point as the motion of objects.

If there is a way to artificially manipulate the propagations of energy or the folded curvature of space-time, then we might someday be able to manipulate gravity fields.




We have Newtonian's notion of gravity as a force proportional to the mass of two objects and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.

Einstein's general relativity says that Gravity is a distortion in space-time.

Without getting into too much detail about explaining Newtonian Gravity or General relativity (since this is for the layman), we don't have a way to merge General relativity with Quantum Mechanics. Scientists think that there may be some sort of graviton particle that causes attraction or gravitational waves. I don't think gravity is a form of energy or force that is emitted at all.

If superstring theory is on the right track and matter itself is fluctuating energy, then:
I think gravity is a biproduct of energy's interaction in (n)dimensional space. 

As strings of energy vibrate in multi-dimensional or (n)dimensional space, they make ripples in space-time itself. Because space-time is (n)dimensional, the way that these ripples overlap in 3dimensional space, alters or curves the super-positions of these strings. 
This requires that space-time itself is not a vacuum, but instead a medium through which energy propagates.
If true, then our notions of quantum mechanics and general relativity do not contradict each other.
Or maybe, quantum mechanics falls short. Instead of quantum mechanics as subatomic particles that we can not locate, we have strings of energy bent through the curvature of (n)dimensional space-time.
That's why quantum particles appear to pop in and out of space with unpredictability. Our observation of motion does not take into account the over-lapping folds of (n)dimensional space-time.

If space-time is (n)dimensional and subject to manipulation by the presence of energy, then I will attempt to explain how this interaction explains both the behavior of subatomic particles and larger planetary sized bodies.
Not only that, but if there is a way to artificially manipulate the propagations of energy or the folded curvature of space-time, then we might someday be able to manipulate gravity fields.

We tend to picture the universe or math in 2 or 3 dimensions. Picturing objects or motion in multi-dimensional space is really difficult. we just don't observe the world that way.
We also observe gravity but have no way to explain the motion of objects.
General relativity shows it this way:

I try to explain the motion this way:
What if you were looking down at a rubber ball travelling along the ocean towards the beach? 
From a 2dimensional perspective, the ball appears to be moving with no observable force.

But a side view or 3dimensional perspective shows us that waves or disturbances in the water's surface are pushing the ball along.

In this way, I intend to show that gravity does not happen because objects with mass are emitting graviton energy, it is instead what happens to 3dimensional objects resting in (n)dimensional space that is being disturbed by the fluctuation of energy.

When I say that (n)dimensional space fluctuates or that energy propagates through it, first picture ripples on the surface of a body of water.

This is easy to imagine in 3dimensions. By dimension, I'm not referring to a place like the twilight zone I'm referring to units of vector. 2 dimensions with an (x) and (y) axis look like this:

3 dimensions look like this:

Energy propagating through a 3 dimensional space would look like a sphere in micro-gravity being disturbed. Like this:

Imagining (n) dimensional space is more difficult.
By (n) dimensional, I am referring to (n) as a variable to represent the number of possible dimensions.
String theory has often debated the number of dimensions, but I think we can move forward without deciding whether there are 26 or infinite numbers. I would tend to think if the Universe's math was perfect then the actual number would either be infinite or it would be a vector through which space could be bent that would most likely be explained using a constant with Pi. But It's not necessary to get into that for this discussion.
Instead let's just picture a hypersphere:

Which is similar to a hypercube, where the vertices of a 3dimensional cube are extended into space.
Which looks like this:

Only a sphere has an infinite number of vertices and trying to imagine it would give you a headache.

What we care about for this discussion is that space expands and contracts into these (n)dimensions and they are not observable to us from our 3dimensional vantage point in the same way that we we're not able to see the waves that were moving the ball.



Now let's start with quantum mechanics and the way that particles exist as strings or wave propagations of energy in 3dimensional space, bent into (n)dimensional space.

Let's say we have a particle. I'm going to start by representing it as a plane. When we talked about newtonian particle physics in middle school science, we were told that electrons existed in an orbit. Picture the particle as a plane where of the particle could be at any point on the surface of that plane.
These are all the possible places that the particle could be at any given point in time.

But we know that these particle orbits don't necessarily look like that.
We were taught it was something like this:

But picturing something like a quark or the particles that make up quarks is probably better imagined as something like this:

This is because the particle doesn't really orbit a neutron or anything, it's just wave of energy that we call a particle so that we can measure it as a distinct unit with specific properties.
But since this wave is bent into (n)dimensional space it's probably more like this:

Or this:

This is why I think particles appear to pop in and out of space. There paths don't make logical sense in 3dimensions. Predicting it's position is like trying to predict a point on a hypersphere.



Now since general relativity says that energy warps space-time, couldn't we assume that the same is true of the tiniest manifestations of energy such as quarks or other subatomic particles.
If so, then the motion or the existence of energy in quantum space is likely to warp or disturb space-time at the subatomic level.

Only since we're talking about 3dimensional space, these disturbances might be better represented like this:

But since we're really talking about (n)dimensional space-time then it might be best represented like this:

This could explain the way the interaction of subatomic particles. The way that they may overlap or cause their positions or rotations to line up in logical ways would result in laws and rules that keep electrons in outer orbits or molecules of Iron in rigid structures while water remains liquid at room temperatures. Molecules are collections of these blobs of energy that attract and repel each other with their fluctuating dance.



But what about Larger bodies?
What about General Relativity?

I propose that the collective distortions of space-time add up.
This is because space-time is expanding and contracting into (n)dimensions. It would explain why we don't see an apple get pulled toward an apple. But we see water in zero (or micro) gravity attracted to itself. In the presence of larger gravity fields, space-time isn't curved enough.
Imagine that large bodies like the Earth and the Moon are distorting space-time.

Here, the peaks represent the expansion of space and the valleys represent contractions.

But because we're talking about 3dimensional space expanding into (n)dimensions, we visualize this:

or this:

As space expands and contracts, objects end up closer with each passing instant. The distance between the two objects gets shorter and shorter.
Objects travel in straight lines following einstein's general relativity. Only instead of being attracted by a force, they are propagating along 3dimensional space as it expands and contracts into (n)dimensional space-time.
Like an inch worm.

Or like a cell phone sliding across a table:

If we could vibrate this gravity field to the right frequency we might build anti-gravity cars that would slide through the gravity field like those wind up toys that crawl from vibrating.

 I explained all this in a previous post

So that is the best way for me to explain my personal theory on Gravity.
I realize that this is in no way a proof or even a properly formatted argument. My explanation has holes.
Hopefully, this furthers the discussion in some way.

Although, I do realize that just because it may be possible to guess that Gravity fields are created by folding/vibrating (n)dimensional space-time, that it doesn't necessarily mean we will be able to manipulate gravity fields. After all, gravity fields appear to be caused by the interaction of energy in the form of matter not energy in the form of something such as electricity. It takes quite a large amount of energy to make solid atoms. It might be the case that creating an anti-gravity field strong enough to counter earths gravity would require an equivalent amount of energy. Based on the amount of energy caused by splitting atoms, the energy necessary to distort space as much as the earth might not be practical. What's important here is that a new outlook on the nature of gravity could lead to possibilities such as anti-gravity fields.

Just keep in mind that if this theory is on the right track, then this could explain why we haven't been able to explain what causes gravity. We observe the motion but our limited 3dimensional thinking made the source of this motion difficult for us to imagine. Just like looking at the beach ball floating on the ocean.



(M)M Theory

-(M)M


*******UPDATE******
If you're interested in learning more, I found some "light reading" on the subject below.
(I hadn't read this when I wrote this post)
http://arxiv.org/pdf/0706.0190.pdf

Spring Breakers: A Review

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