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The layout and writing style of the Time Cube website.

Time Cube is the proposal that time is cubic, a cryptic concept which is a frequent target of Internet humor. The idea was created by Gene Ray, who claims it proves there to be four simultaneous 24-hour days in one rotation of the Earth. Ray has challenged newspapers and academics to debate the subject, though most reject Time Cube, for reasons such as considering it to be nonsense or absurdism, or to lack testable hypotheses.

Gene's website promoting Time Cube as a theory of everything (timecube.com) started gaining notoriety in 1997. It uses a distinctive combination of simple drawings and colorful large-font text, and has been widely parodied. Some of the writing attempts to explain Time Cube itself, but Ray devotes much of the site to insulting and threatening those who are opposed to Time Cube.

Though he is dismissed as a crank, Ray is outspoken in defending Time Cube, and refers to conspiracy theories in explaining why his ideas aren't accepted. Under established psychiatric schema, these behaviors are held to be characteristics of paranoid schizophrenia, a disorder involving delusions of grandeur and persecution-complexes. While Gene has acknowledged that accordingly, he would be diagnosed as ill, he hasn't confirmed being officially diagnosed with a mental illness.


Time Cube's Creator

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Gene Ray and "Nature's Harmonic Simultaneous 4-Day Time Cube".

Gene Ray's profession, for several decades, was that of a master electrician in Florida. Aside from philosophical enquiry, his interests included inventing, and the game of marbles.

Dr. Ray's 1980s precursor to Time Cube was a system of thought involving the pyramid and the circle. He remarked that the pyramid — large at the base but narrow at the top — paralleled an unsustainable growth rate of modern civilization. Specifically, he described similarities to a pyramid scheme. Contrasted with the pyramid were round shapes, which symbolised sustainable cycles.

Ray proposed an "Order of the Sphere" to further this philosophy, and formulated plans including a proposed world marbles tournament. Subsequently, however, his focus shifted away from discussing circles, having apparently come to believe that their continuous curvature could not be found in physical reality. Ray now refers almost exclusively to the importance of cubes—whose square faces are the only regular polygons whose interior angles sum to the circle's span of 360°. He has ascribed four cornered characteristics to, for instance, the human head, which, while irregularly shaped, does possess well-defined vertical limits and well-defined bilateral symmetry. He proclaimed himself a "Doctor of Cubicism" in December 2002.

The Time Cube Theory

In August of 1997, Ray created his well-known website to publicize a theoretical link between cubes and time. On the site, there are a number of claims relating to physics and mathematics, some of which can arguably be tested. It is difficult for most people to separate the scientific component of Time Cube from Gene's personal philosophies: for instance, some may view has statements on race and religion to contain prejudice. The site has voluminous text alleging the existence of conspiracies to suppress Time Cube, and many inflammatory remarks are directed at the government and the school system.

General Claims

  • "[There are] 4 simultaneous 24 hour days within a single rotation of Earth."
  • "Humans are Cubic forms that rotate a 4 corner face lifetime."
  • "Creation has 2 sex poles and 4 corner races of humans."
  • "All the universe exist[s] as opposite values."
  • "[Gene Ray is] wiser than all gods and scientists."
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Earth rotates within a Time Cube

Physics Claims

  • "Earth [is] 2 opposite hemispheres rotating in opposite directions."
  • "Time is Cubic and not linear."
  • "Earth [is] composed of 4 Worlds."
  • "Earth is not an entity."
  • "Planets [are] created via opposite rotating poles."

Mathematical Claims

  • "-1 x -1=+1 is stupid and evil."
  • "3.20 [is] the perfect value of π."
  • "[Gene Ray has] squared the circle." (see Squaring the circle)

Education Claims

  • "Teachers are hired evil word pedants who enslave childish minds to a lifetime stupidity."
  • "Educators are the primary cause of evil mathematics."
  • "Physicists [are] forbidden to acknowledge Time Cube."
  • "Schools are actually churches."
  • "Singularity educators are unfit to even live."
  • "Your own people will kill you to prevent this 'Forbidden Truth Cube' from ever being known."

Racial Claims

  • "Sunup represents Indian Race; Midday represents White Race; Sundown represents Asian Race; Midnight represents Black Race."
  • "All past Great Civilizations have been destroyed by minorities."
  • "Blacks are enslaving whites - and will soon extract revenge."
  • "Racial integration equals 'Racial Slop'."
  • "Interracial marriage is stupid and evil."

Religious Claims

  • "Time Cube disproves God."
  • "Christianity is subservient to the Jews."
  • "[The] worship of Word as God equates to adults eating their children."
  • "The male god singularity and same sex trinity equates denouncing motherhood and supporting a state of queers."

Public Debate of The Theory

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Ray (highlighted) debates Time Cube with university students at MIT in January 2002.

There are some who claim to understand and follow Ray's views. The specific number of actual believers is unknown, as websites and internet posts that attempt to elaborate on the theory are often intended as subtle parodies. A few people suspect that even Ray himself is insincere and intends Time Cube as a hoax, but he has never indicated that this is the case. Vehement Cube-supporters on bulletin boards and elsewhere have also had some speculators impute them the status of being sock-puppets of Gene Ray.

Ray has claimed to offer $10,000 to any academic institution or professor who disproves Time Cube. Nearly all academics view the website as incoherent and not possible to scientifically evaluate, though Humanities Journal of Hsuan-Chuang University in Taiwan has published an article about Time Cube. The piece compares Ray to the visionary astronomer Hipparchus, and is titled "Proving Human Stupidity: Time Cube, Gnosis, and the Challenge of Radical Cosmology".

In January of 2002, Gene lectured and debated Time Cube with students at MIT. Advance advertising for the event included posters with quotations declaring it to be "the Holy Grail of Physics", and the event filled one of MIT's largest lecture halls. Though this was the first such presentation within an academic institution, Ray later spoke at Georgia Tech in April of 2005.

See also


Pro-Cubic

Cubic publicity

Academic Lectures

Parodies

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