[RascalPuff]

Before late '99, as can be confirmed by GOOGLE and other chronological archives, there were no (zero) discussions on 'gravity is the 4th dimension', or gravity, electricity & magnetism as the 4th, 5th & 6th dimensions. Or The Reinstatement of Einstein's Unified Field w'out Math: The Big Bang Theory is Wrong.
All that has changed, since.
In late '99 (under a bevy of witnesses, including his co workers at the time <in Santa Cruz, CA>), one Brian Kirk Parquette (bkparque) enthusiastically introduced himself to me and several of my friends and acquaintances; asked to buy a copy of the (condensed) 54 page, 5th edition of my (627 page) hard copy published - consistently sold out - book, GRAVITY IS THE 4th DIMENSION (Electricity the 5th, Magnetism the 6th).
After reading and praising it abundantly, Parquette asked me if it was posted on the net. I said I didn't know how to use the internet and used computers only for word processing and printing out copy material from which I produced and distributed small press editions of my book. Having done so with a typewriter and off set press since 1970, and before then, published and sold out repeatedly in small press essay and soft cover book form, since 1959 (beginning in Naples, Italy and translated into three lanuages, all along the French and Italian Rivieras, prolifically responded to with positive accolades, in Italian, French and English).
Parquette asked me if it was okay for him to post it on the internet. Of course I was grateful for this opportunity and was happy to give him a disc containing several of my works, including the issued (condensed) physics book.

Until the Astronomy Net was temporarily retired on 6 December 02, for renovation, when you clicked on google and entered 'gravity is the 4th dimension', you went to the Astronomy Net and accessed a post by 'bkparque', who initiated that particular Astronomy Net post and referenced a series of URL 404's where he had posted info previously and then deleted it without further explanation. It was later revealed that he had presentend the work as his own and then retracted it.
Parquette presently maintains a forum of his own.

Since then, one bkparque is sprinkled all over the web/net with 'posts by bkparque', espousing gravity as the 4th dimension. This goes back to Dec., '99 and February 2000 (and ever since...). Bkparque at first avoided telling his readers that such posts were authored by himself, deliberately leaving the reader with the directly implied impression that bkparque is the author of what he posts. In a an internet letter addressed, and rudely worded to Princeton's Dr. Wheeler, and Dr. Eliot McGucken (of Jolly Roger), Parquette eventually and overtly proclaims himself to be the 'Author' of several extended, verbatim excerpts from my book (Enter 'Dr. Eliot McGucken ‘Do let me know when it stops' 'Brian Kirk Parquette', in GOOGLE - argumentively engaged . McGucken and Dr. Wheeler, while impersonating myself...)

bkparque was reprimanded and corrected for copyright infringement (including bold and elaborate plagiarism), by Delphiforums.com for multiple copyright intrusions and misrepresentations on a variety of subjects, including claiming the title *'gravity is the 4th dimension' to be authored by himself (*included in his 'forum profile' as his 'personal quote'), along with the title of his forum - EXTRATERRESTRIAL PHYSICS 101 (Copyright 1979 by Kent Benjamin Robertson, AKA Kent Robertson ben Abraham, That Rascal Puff, KaiduOrkhon).

Reliable sources say that bkparque's brigand posts in the Astronomy Net Forums are one of the reasons that site was renovated

The title, 'Gravity Is The 4th Dimension' is copyrighted and published in 10 small press editions (thru 2007) since 1959, by Kent Benjamin Robertson - book was sold internationally through the 1970-71 WHOLE EARTH CATALOGUE (Published by the Portola Institute), and which goes back to earlier titles, including 'The New Gravity', and 'An Hypothesis On Gravity'.

The work has since emerged under a flurry of authorships, some of whom are informed piecemeal and innocent of plagiarism, and some of whom - like bkparque - are lifting extended exerpts, rhyme, chapter and verse, directly out of K.B. Robertson's original work, the condensed 6th edition of which is free for any and all to read at * http://forums.delphiforums.com/EinsteinGroupie; these pirates are now gridlocked with a fitting argument, contending who purloined the work first. The lastest contender to join the fray (in 2002, advertising ‘his book' on the net) is one Mark McCutcheon, the first two chapters of whose book - The Final Theory - conspicuously parallels the work at issue here, authored by Truly Yours.


The first two electrifying chapters of McCutcheon's oxymoronically titled book are direct parallels of and, ostensibly extracted from Gravity Is The 4th Dimension, by Truly Yours. I am grateful for whatever attention Mr. McCutcheon may gather for himself, insofar as when he lays enough eggs on the other side of the road, the chickens will inevitably come home to roost. As I have said before on this issue, whether Mr. McCutcheon pirated my work or not is a technicality. The point is that his so called 'Final Theory' party is nearly 50 years tardy. I am grateful to Mr. Mark McCutcheon for publishing his work in hard copy and advertising it on the internet, although I must admit resenting his greed in selling my work at $30.00 per copy while mine is given away free. Should McCutcheon ever be obliged to pay royalties, I hereby publicly promise to give whatever that may amount to, to worthy charity. More will be said about this culminating intrigue and duplicity, later. (Any suggestions are welcome.)


In 1967, Dr. Richard Feynman, Prof Emeritus of Cal Tech (Nobel Prize Laureate), skipped three classes he taught at that time to talk with K.B. Robertson (AKA Kent Robertson ben Abraham), one on one in his (Feynman's) study, about the unprecedented statement 'gravity is the 4th dimension', after which time Dr. R. Feynman candidly conceded, 'I am unable to disqualify it'. Witnesses to this include Dr. Feynman's staff of that era, as well as Peter and Donna Tyner, and Vern and Miriam Reed, of Los Angeles.

10,000 small press distributed copies are sold out in 41 California bookstores in the past 30 years. It outsold 'JAWS' at the UC Berkeley Campus bookstore in the mid '70s, and was a best seller at CODY'S and MOE'S bookstores on Telegraph Ave. It (‘Gravity Is The 4th Dimension') has been graffiti on the walls of international cities - as well as the Birge - Physics - Building on Berkeley Campus, for decades.

A number of people certainly including myself have learned of and certainly taken interest in a series of emergences of this statement - Gravity is the 4th dimension ( Electricity is the 5th Dimension, Magnetism is the 6th Dimension, Extraterrestrial Physics 101, The New Gravity, Total Field Theory, The Reinstatement of Einstein's Presently Abandoned Unified Field Theory, The Big Bang Theory is Wrong) - under as many different 'original authorships' - in the past several decades.
For an evolved discussion on the featured topic at hand in this forum the reader is respectfully advised to refer to the source at the above provided URL.
It may be interesting to see the evolution of this thread as it is contributed to by readers of the referred URL, as compared to the persons who (ostensibly) haven't read it.
Post Script:
Gravity is the 4th Dimension(Gravity, Electricity & Magnetism are the 4th, 5th and 6th dimensions; the Big Bang Theory is Wrong; the Reinstatement of Einstein's Presently Abandoned Unified Field Theory) is a narrative and an anthological compendium of quotes from other books, researched, gathered and editorially connected to one another (by way of employing and connecting previously unrecognized works) in the unprecedented commission of what amounts to a historically substantiated - overwhelmingly documented - reinstatement of Einstein's presently abandoned *Unified Field Theory. *The objective of which is to find electromagnetism and gravity as being two apparently different phenomena, actually having the same causal identity .Of course I will gladly shake the hand of anyone who can precede my 1959 copyright.

The achievement of reinstating Einstein's formerly abandoned Unified Field Theory includes a seriatim of major break throughs in theoretical physics. When Parquette's impersonation and displacement of myself as the author of the subjected work was brought to my attention, I forthwith expressed my disappointment in him, at the same time that I assured him that all he - or anyone emulating him - would succeed in doing is making a fool of himself and expediting the conveyence of my formerly hard copy, small press confined work to the world.
Best regards,
- RascalPuff, Kaiduorkhon (K B. Robertson)

[mkirkpatrick]

You have been very hard working and enterprising Rascal,you contribute much to this forum,I thank you for that,at the end of your post,you mention Einstein and his unified
field theory,I take it you fully support this theory as I do,tell me Rascal,"off the record,so to speak"do you think that the unifying principle Albert was looking for was consciousness? I do,what do you think?


warm regards michael.

[RascalPuff]

Originally Posted by mkirkpatrick You have been very hard working and enterprising Rascal,you contribute much to this forum,I thank you for that,at the end of your post,you mention Einstein and his unified field theory,I take it you fully support this theory as I do,tell me Rascal,"off the record,so to speak"do you think that the unifying principle Albert was looking for was consciousness? I do,what do you think? warm regards michael.

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Dear Michael:

The human brain both transmits and receives - a transceiver; to and from the universe.

It is unlikely that (especially in view of recently proven facts such as the formerly hypothetical 'butterfly theory' <cause & effect> ) conciousness does not play a profound and fundamental part in the universal status quo. As it has been, as it is, and as it will be.

Your tenacious and elegant - diversity studded - stand on the importance of the role of consciousness borders on obsession: because, for the most part I suppose, you realize that consciousness is generally excluded from physics, qua physical science as it addresses the universe.

Without consciousness, the abyss would not know how to look back at us, for example... In a few more words, Michael, I am in general agreement with practically all of your perspectives and posts, though they may sometimes be redundant. You have a wonderful axe to grind and your own gift of delivering it to an ever finer adjoinmnent.

(A word from Albert - 'The Axe' - Einstein:
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us 'universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.)

Personally, I do not see how consciousness can be rightfully excluded from any principle of unification.

Best regards to you and yours, Michael.
Please stay with your work and go where your consciousness bids you to venture.
- RP