Time Cube

The layout (reduced) and writing style of the Time Cube website.

Time Cube is the proposition that time is cubic, a cryptic concept which is a frequent target of Internet humor. The idea was created by Gene Ray, who claims also that it proves the existence of four simultaneous 24-hour days in one rotation of the Earth. Ray has challenged universities, academics, students and the media 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.

Ray's website, which promotes Time Cube as a theory of everything, started gaining notoriety in 1997. It uses a distinctive combination of simple drawings, colorful large-font text, obscure statements and unconventional grammar, and has been widely parodied. Some of the writing serves as an explanation of the Time Cube itself, while other parts expound upon the social ramifications of the theory, and describe people who oppose or fail to understand it as being "stupid and evil".

Though he is dismissed as a crank, Ray is outspoken in defending Time Cube and refers to conspiracy theories in explaining why his ideas are not accepted. Because the academic establishment has paid little attention to his ideas, he has proclaimed himself a "Doctor of Cubicism" in December 2002—and sometimes goes by the title Dr. Gene Ray - Wisest Human on Earth.

Followers of Time Cube are known as "Cubicists" or "Cubics".

The Time Cube concept

In August of 1997, Ray created his well-known website to publicize a theoretical link between cubes and time. His site makes a number of claims relating to physics and mathematics, many of which cannot be tested or understood from a mainstream scientific perspective.

It is difficult to separate the allegedly scientific component of Time Cube from Gene's personal philosophies: for instance, some may view his 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, the school system, and critics of Ray in general.

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.

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 × −1 = +1 is stupid and evil.
• 3.20 [is] the perfect value of π.
• [Gene Ray has] squared the circle.
• 4 is the supreme number of the universe.

Education claims

• Teachers are hired evil word pedants who enslave childish minds to a lifetime of 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.
• Educators teach assumed math.

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 exact 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.
• God = Hate of Children.
• God is a word masturbation

Wikipedia claims

• Gene Ray has stated: "Wikipedia allowing the educated stupid to evaluate the 4 simultaneous 24 hour days within a single rotation of Earth, equates allowing atheist to proof-read the bible."
• Dr. Gene Ray offers Wikipedia $10,000.00 to disprove math that 1 rotation of 4 Earth quadrants within the 4 quarter Harmonic Time Cube does create 4 simultaneous 24 hour days.

Public debate of the concept

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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 Time Cube has no organization behind it and exists primarily as an internet phenomenon. It is also believed by many that internet posts that attempt to elaborate on the concept 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. Some speculators have suggested that vehement Cube-supporters on bulletin boards and elsewhere are sock-puppets of Gene Ray.

Ray has claimed to offer $10,000 to any academic institution or professor who disproves Time Cube. Many academics have viewed 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 the Spring of 1999, Gene was invited by several Georgia Tech students to visit and present his ideas. This was Gene's first presentation within an academic institution, though it received no publicity. 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 (10-250). This was his first highly publicized presentation. Ray later spoke again at Georgia Tech in April of 2005.

Refutations of Time Cube claims

Critics have argued that most claims made by Time Cube are either too vague, or too poorly defined, to be refuted or falsified. However, some of the mathematical claims can be analyzed. For instance, there exist proofs that a negative number times a negative number is a positive number, working solely from a small, well-defined set of axiomatic set theory and axioms for first-order predicate logic. This shows that the result −1 × −1 = 1 is deeply rooted in conventional mathematics. Additionally, the Lindemann-Weierstrass theorem proves that pi is transcendental and consequently cannot be equal to 3.20.

Given that mathematics underlie much of modern science, it is reasonable to believe that the Time Cube framework - which does not allow the results mentioned above - is inherently incompatible with most commonly accepted scientific theories.

See also

• Cube
• Scientific method
• Theory of everything
• List of alternative, speculative and disputed theories

External links

Pro-Cubic

• Time Cube website
• Above God, The Greatest Thinker, The Wisest Human: Gene Ray's auxiliary official sites
• Cubic Awareness Online A fansite with Cubic explanations.
• Graveyard of the Gods: Cubic Awareness, A time cube Internet forum.

Proofs

• TimeCube.com, second page—see the section near the bottom entitled "Confirmation", for example of Dr Ray's tabulated and diagrammatical proof of the 4/16 Cube Principle, and the division of Earth into 4 quadrants.
• Sequential 64-Case Time Cube Proof, from CubicAO.

Refutations

• Day Of Cubic Opinion, IX (post of Sun Jan 15, 2006 5:14 a.m.), New Errors in Timecube Theory: Two threads which expound a rational refutation of timecube and illustrate what the flaws are and how they have arisen out of perceptive illusions about 3-D space from an observer frame.
• Explain this..., post of Sat Jan 14, 2006 12:08 p.m. containing brief word proof against 4 complete days in a single rotation: Note: the author EWM has never received $1000 or $10,000 for disproving 4 days in a rotation.

Cubic publicity

• Insolitology's Time Cube page about "the greatest internet crank"
• Everything2: A letter from Gene Ray explaining Time Cube
• Everything2: Interview with Gene Ray
• Prima Vera Angelhair interviews Gene Ray - Audio

Link repository

• Time Cube page on Crank Dot Net

Academic lectures

• Time Cube MIT lecture/debate synopsis
• Time Cube lecture at Georgia Tech: Includes DVD of lecture for sale

Parodies

• Learning Triangle: A parody of Time Cube, from Something Awful
• Another parody describing the rival Game Cube theory
• Time Cube: Communications From Elsewhere Randomly generates Time Cube-like text
• Time Cube card game
• Slime Cube on Uncyclopedia
• Time Cube on Encyclopaedia Dramatica
• Time Cube on Encyclopaedia Dramatica
• The Time Cube I-Ching gives random Time Cube quotes to your questions
• Bonus Stage Episode 7: Cube - An episode of Bonus Stage mocking the website.
• TIMECUBE!!! - A review of the Time Cube RPG.