Time Cube is a website created by Gene Ray where he sets out his proposed description of the nature of the universe. The website uses a distinctive combination of colorful large-font text, occasional black-and-white drawings, obscure statements, and unconventional grammar. Its style has been widely parodied, giving rise to an internet phenomenon. Gene Ray (born Otis Eugene Ray, 2 July 1927) claims that his writings on Natures Harmonic Simultaneous 4-Day Time Cube describe the ineffable truth of the universe. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

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

The Time Cube concept itself is the proposition that time is cubic, a set of ideas which are generally viewed as cryptic and ill-defined. It is a frequent target of Internet humor. The concept is generally considered to be nonsense and lacking in testable hypotheses. Ray has challenged various authorities to debate the subject, but these challenges have generally been ignored or rejected. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1008x707, 156 KB) Summary A screen grab of the TimeCube website. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1008x707, 156 KB) Summary A screen grab of the TimeCube website. ... A pocket watch, a device used to tell time Look up time in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Three dimensions A cube (or hexahedron) is a Platonic solid composed of six square faces, with three meeting at each vertex. ... A hypothesis (= assumption in ancient Greek) is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon. ...

Though he is often dismissed as a crank,^[1][2] Ray is outspoken in defending Time Cube and refers to conspiracy theories in explaining why his ideas are not accepted. Ray uses the word "evil" more than 110 times on his website to describe those who oppose or fail to understand his ideas. He also calls for the killing of not just those who oppose his ideas, but of anyone who is ignorant of them, ignoring the fact that this would mean wiping out almost the entirety of the Earth's population. Ray proclaimed himself a "Doctor of Cubicism" in December 2002. He sometimes uses the title "Dr. Gene Ray - Cubic and Wisest Human". Crank is a pejorative term for a person who holds some belief which the vast majority of his contemporaries would consider false, clings to this belief in the face of all counterarguments or evidence presented to him. ... For other uses, see Conspiracy theory (disambiguation). ...

Gene Ray's use of derogatory, racist, and even homicidal remarks regarding academia, religion, and ethnicities (e.g. Black and Jewish people) has encouraged further criticism against his website, and made it the subject of numerous parodies and humorous commentary ^[3].

The Time Cube concept

This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the talk page for details.

Gene Ray's cryptic style, apparent rejection of basic mathematical concepts, and the lack of published academic research make it difficult to sum up the concept of Time Cube. The following quotation captures both the style of Ray's writing and a major recurring theme of the Time Cube: Image File history File links Circle-question. ...

It may be noted that—due to the spherical shape of the earth—these four "time points" Ray refers to do not exist as points, but as curved lines representing a wide range of values. Also, Ray's use of the word "simultaneous" does not appear to refer to a meaning other than the accepted one. However, he fails to make any logically coherent explanation as to how different periods of time that are taking place "simultaneously" can be counted separately and added together as in the passage above. Furthermore, sunrise and sunset move throughout the year relative to midnight and midday, so these "time points" are not actually equidistant. Other passages, such as the one below, seem to suggest that Ray has little respect for basic arithmetic. Simultaneity is the property of two events happening at the same time. ...

Nevertheless, it appears that the chief claim of Ray's ideas relates to the "simultaneous" existence of four days within a single rotation of Earth and the subsequent inference that the planet itself is not a physical "entity", as its hemispheres actually rotate in opposite directions and cancel out, as antipodes. The Earths rotation is the rotation of the solid earth around its own axis, which is called Earths axis or rotation axis. ... This map shows the antipodes of each point on the Earths surface – the points where the blue and pink overlap are land antipodes. ...

Other points made on Ray's website include the accusation that all academic establishments are "evil" for not teaching Time Cube and that readers who do not agree or are ignorant of his ideas "deserve death". It is not clear as to whether these ideas should be considered a part of the Time Cube concept, or would be better considered as Ray's personal opinions.

Public debate of the concept

The relevance of particular information in (or previously in) this article or section is disputed.
The information may have been removed or included by an editor as a result.
Please see discussion on the talk page considering whether its inclusion is warranted.

There appear to be 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 a widely held opinion that many of the Internet posts that attempt to elaborate on the concept are intended as subtle parodies. A few people suspect that even Ray himself is insincere and intends Time Cube as a type of 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 Internet sock puppets of Gene Ray himself. Image File history File links Diamond-caution. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A hoax is an attempt to trick an audience into believing that something false is real. ... Look up bulletin board, notice board in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A sock puppet, after which internet sock puppets are named. ...

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, titled "Proving Human Stupidity: Time Cube, Gnosis, and the Challenge of Radical Cosmology", references Ray in a comparison to the Greek astronomer Hipparchus. ^[4] Academic institution is an educational institution dedicated to higher education and research, which grants academic degrees. ... Hsuan Chuang University (玄奘大學) is a university in Hsinchu, Taiwan, Republic of China. ... For the Athenian tyrant, see Hipparchus (son of Pisistratus). ...

Ray spoke at Georgia Tech in April 2005. Ray also spoke at MIT, in January 2002.^[5] The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly known as Georgia Tech, is a public, coeducational research university, part of the University System of Georgia, and located in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, with satellite campuses in Savannah, Georgia, Metz, France and Singapore. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private, coeducational research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ...

See also

• Scientific method
• Theory of everything (philosophy)
• List of pseudosciences and pseudoscientific concepts

Scientific method is a body of techniques for investigating phenomena and acquiring new knowledge, as well as for correcting and integrating previous knowledge. ... In philosophy, a theory of everything or TOE is an ultimate, all-encompassing explanation of nature or reality. ... This is a list of fields of endeavor and concepts that have been regarded as pseudoscientific by: Organizations that are representative of the international scientific community, and/or Skeptical organizations They may have explicitly called a field or concept pseudoscience or used words to that effect: instances of the latter...

References

Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 254th day of the year (255th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Alternate newspaper: The Daily Mirror (Australia) The Daily Mirror is a British tabloid daily newspaper. ... is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 139th day of the year (140th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... is the 95th day of the year (96th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• Time Cube website
• Above God, The Greatest Thinker, The Wisest Human, Dr Gene Ray's auxiliary websites
• Cubic Awareness Online
• Everything2: A letter from Gene Ray explaining Time Cube
• Everything2: Interview with Gene Ray
• Prima Vera Angelhair interviews Gene Ray - Audio
• Bopeton Interviews Gene Ray, ca. 1999
• PC magazine article that references the Time Cube web site
• Time Cube MIT lecture/debate synopsis
• MIT Time Cube lecture in .mov format