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{{Short description|American conspiracy website (1997–2015)}}
The '''Time Cube''' is a concept promoted by ] on his , postulating that time is somehow cubic or ]-cornered. It is unclear how his ideas relate to any established concept of time. As there are no testable hypotheses or predictions associated to the "time cube," it is not ] falsifiable. It must therefore be considered a speculative belief with little relation to physics or science in general, and is indeed generally viewed as a (somewhat notorious) example of ].
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==Nature's Harmonic Simultaneous 4-Day Time Cube==
| name = Time Cube
| screenshot = Timegrab.png
| caption = The layout and writing style of the Time Cube website
| commercial = No
| type = Personal web page and conspiracy blog
| author = Otis Eugene "Gene" Ray
| launch_date = {{start date and age|1997}}
| current_status = Inactive{{efn|Ray's website domain names expired on August 24, 2015,<ref name=aro>{{Cite news |last=Robertson |first=Adi |date=September 2, 2015 |title=Time Cube Is Gone |work=] |url=https://www.theverge.com/2015/9/2/9247913/time-cube-is-gone |url-status=live |access-date=February 15, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150912045309/http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/2/9247913/time-cube-is-gone |archive-date=September 12, 2015}}</ref> and Time Cube was last archived by the ] (January 10–14).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Timecube |website=Internet Archive Wayback Machine |url=https://web.archive.org/web/*/timecube.com |access-date=June 25, 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
}}
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'''Time Cube''' was a ] personal web page set up in 1997 by Otis Eugene "Gene" Ray.<ref name="MC" >{{Cite news |last=Hartwell |first=Mark |date=September 24, 2004 |title=Timecube.com: Where reality as we know it is a lie |work=The Maine Campus |url=http://mainecampus.com/2004/09/24/timecubecom-where-reality-as-we-know-it-is-a-lie |access-date=July 25, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430225718/http://mainecampus.com/2004/09/24/timecubecom-where-reality-as-we-know-it-is-a-lie/ |archive-date=April 30, 2011}}</ref> It was a self-published outlet for Ray's "theory of everything", also called "Time Cube", which claims that all modern sciences are participating in a ] to omit his theory, which posits that each day actually consists of four days occurring simultaneously.<ref name="PCMag" /> Ray described himself as the "wisest man on earth"<ref name="MC" /> and a "godlike being with superior intelligence who has absolute evidence and proof" for his views. Ray asserted repeatedly and variously that the academic world had not taken Time Cube seriously.<ref name=Swarthmore/>


According to ], Ray died on 18 March 2015, and the Time Cube website registration expired in August 2015.<ref name=aro/>
===Supremacy of four===


== Website ==
Gene Ray states that "4 is the supreme number of the universe" and frequently divides continuums into four classes, much like the Greeks did with the ] and the ]. These classes are called ''corners''. There are several sets of corners mentioned:
The Time Cube website did not have a home page.<ref name="MC" /> A large amount of self-invented jargon is used throughout, often never defined. In one paragraph, Ray claimed that his own wisdom "so antiquates known knowledge" that a psychiatrist examining his behavior diagnosed him with ].<ref><nowiki>https://web.archive.org/web/20080709075217/http://www.timecube.com/</nowiki>, "My wisdom so antiquates known knowledge, that a psychiatrist examining my behavior, eccentric by his academic single corner knowledge, knows no course other than to judge me schizoprenic."</ref>


Adi Robertson of '']'' commented that Ray's theory of time is "an incredibly confusing one peppered with racism and homophobia".<ref name=aro/>
* The four corners of complexion are black, white, Asian, and Indian
* The four corners/stages/lives of a person's lifetime (family time ages) are baby, child, parent, and grandparent
* The four corners of a person's head are the face, two ears, and back of the head
* The four corners of Earth are four arbitrary quadrants
* The four corners of the day are midnight, 6 AM, noon, and 6 PM
* The four corners of the year are the four seasons


== Time Cube concept ==
===4-day===
]
Ray's ], called "Time Cube", states that all of modern physics and education is wrong,<ref name="PCMag" /> and argues that, among many other things, ] is a global ]. He uses various graphs (along with pictures of himself) that purport to show how each day is really four separate days—], ], ], and ] (formerly morning, early afternoon, late afternoon, and evening)—occurring simultaneously.<ref name="MC" /><ref name="Swarthmore">{{Cite news |last=Duffy |first=Kate |date=September 19, 2002 |title=Truth Is Cubic? |work=The Phoenix |publisher=Swarthmore College |location=Swarthmore, Pennsylvania |url=http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/org/phoenix/2002/2002-09-19/living/12178.php |access-date=July 25, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021220092124/http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/org/phoenix/2002/2002-09-19/living/12178.php |archive-date=December 20, 2002}}</ref>


The following quotation from the website illustrates the recurring theme:
]
{{quote|When the Sun shines upon Earth, 2 – major Time points are created on opposite sides of Earth – known as Midday and Midnight. Where the 2 major Time forces join, synergy creates 2 new minor Time points we recognize as Sunup and Sundown. The 4-equidistant time points can be considered as Time Square imprinted upon the circle of Earth. In a single rotation of the Earth sphere, each Time corner point rotates through the other 3-corner Time points, thus creating 16 corners, 96 hours, and 4-simultaneous 24-hour Days within a single rotation of Earth – equated to a Higher Order of Life Time Cube.}}


Ray offered $1,000<ref name="Time Cube">{{Cite web |title=Timecube.com Picture |url=http://www.timecube.com/timecubeflierimg.gif |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150818113418/http://www.timecube.com/timecubeflierimg.gif |archive-date=August 18, 2015 |access-date=September 14, 2014}}</ref> or $10,000<ref name="Swarthmore" /> to anyone who could prove his views wrong.
Every rotation of Earth, each of the four quadrants will experience a different style of day. One will start and end at night, one will start and end in the morning, one will start and end in midday, one will start and end in the evening. Since these styles are different, he says there are four different days in a 24 hour period. Each of these days is associated with one of the four races recognized by Dr. Ray: Midnight to midnight is the Black Race Day, sunup to sunup is the Indian Race Day, midday to midday is the White Race Day, and sundown to sundown is the Asian Race Day.
==Reception==
Ray spoke about Time Cube at the ] in January 2002 as part of a student-organized extra-curricular event during the independent activities period.<ref name="mit">{{Cite web |title=IAP 2002 Activity: Time Cube Lecture / Debate |url=http://web.mit.edu/iap/www/iap02/searchiap/iap-4330.html |access-date=April 5, 2007}}</ref> He repeated his $10,000 offer for professors to disprove his notions at the event; none attempted it.<ref name=Swarthmore/> ] wrote in '']'' that "Metasites that track crackpot sites often say this is the number one nutty site."<ref name="PCMag">{{Cite web |last=Dvorak |first=John C. |author-link=John C. Dvorak |date=December 22, 2003 |title=Don't Call Them Crackpots |url=https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1420072,00.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031224162414/https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1420072,00.asp |archive-date=2003-12-24 |access-date=August 20, 2018 |website=PC Magazine}}</ref> He also characterized the site's content as "endless blather."<ref name="PCMag" /> When asked by ] in 2003 how it felt to be an Internet celebrity, Ray stated that it was not a position he wanted, but something he felt he had to do as "no writer or speaker understands the Time Cube."<ref name="techtv">{{Cite episode |series=Unscrewed with Martin Sargent |network=TechTV|title=Time Cube. The TechTV Interview|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn2UCqL5qyo |date=June 18, 2003 |season=1 |number=15 |quote=''Sargent:'' Gene, how do you feel about being an Internet celebrity? I mean, you're huge on the web. ''Ray:'' Well, it's not a position I wanted, it's something I had to do. I'm not a writer or speaker, but no writer or speaker understands the Time Cube.}}</ref> Ray also spoke about Time Cube at the ] in April 2005, delivering a speech in which he attacked the instruction offered by academics.<ref name="Technique">{{Cite news |last=Cuneo |first=Joshua |date=2005-04-22 |title=Oddball Time Cube theorist piques interest, elicits mixed response |department=Focus |hdl=1853/7877 |hdl-access=free |newspaper=] |volume=90 |issue=31 |pages=11–14 |publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology }}</ref>


In 2005, Brett Hanover made ''Above God'', a short documentary film about Ray and Time Cube.<ref name="Hanover">{{Cite web |title=VIDEO – Brett Hanover |url=http://www.bretthanover.com/video.html |access-date=2023-07-12 |website=www.bretthanover.com}}</ref> The film was likely named after one of Ray's websites, which criticized the idea that God exists.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Above God |url=http://abovegod.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141109145632/http://www.abovegod.com:80/ |archive-date=2014-11-09}}</ref> Hanover's film won awards for Best Documentary at the ] and the Atlanta Underground Film Festival.<ref name="Flyer2005">Harrington, Chris. (October 28, 2005). . '']''. Contemporary Media Inc. Archived from . On July 30, 2010. Retrieved July 22, 2023.</ref><ref name="Flyer2008">Finger, Michael. (April 18, 2008). . '']''. Contemporary Media Inc. July 29, 2010. Retrieved July 22, 2023.</ref>
He says "infinite days is stupidity," showing that he believes that Earth is divided into precisely four classes of location, rather than a continuum of locations. He also calls the ] ] standard "bastardly queer" because it represents only one style of day. Anything associated with those who adhere to the standard is derisively referred to as "1-day," rather than "4-day."


== In popular culture ==
He says that each corner of Earth experiences the four corners of the day. So, that's a total of sixteen corners experienced by humanity during every rotation of Earth.
The song "To the End of the World" on ]'s 2017 album '']'' makes several references to the Time Cube concept.<ref>{{Citation |title=Alestorm – To the End of the World |url=https://genius.com/Alestorm-to-the-end-of-the-world-lyrics |access-date=2024-02-17}}</ref>


===4-year=== ==Notes==
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==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}


==External links==
He says that because the four corners of Earth each experience the year differently (one starts on midnight and ends on midnight, etc.), that there are also four years for every revolution of Earth around the Sun.
{{Portal|Internet}}
* archived at the ] on May 6, 2015
* on ]
* {{Cite web |title=Otis Eugene Ray (1927-2015) - Find a Grave... |url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/178435720/otis-eugene-ray |access-date=2024-11-29 |website=] |language=en}}


]
He also shows another way of deducing four years per revolution around the Sun. He makes the false claims that the four seasons are occurring simultaneously at different points on Earth and that Earth therefore travels four times the distance of a planet that doesn't have a tilted axis.
]

]
===People are 1-cornered===
]

]
A human lifetime is divided into four corners. He says that, at any given point in time, a person is one-cornered (imperfect) instead of four-cornered (perfect) because their perspective is based on experience, and their experience is based on which stage of life they are in. A person's age is not on a continuum; instead, when a person advances to the next corner of their lifetime, their old corner dies.
]

]
===4/16 time cube===
]

The combination of the four corners of the day and the four stages of a person's life is referred to as the 4/16 time cube.

===Humanity as a whole===

]

He also separates humanity into two "sex poles," male and female, and the four corners of complexion. Like other divisions into four, he allows no mixture of classes; in this case, he stands against interracial sex.

According to him (on ), "If the 4 racial components of 2 sex pole hemispheres agreed to a cubing of the sphere as a spiritual unity, heavenly music of cubed sphere could be audible on Earth simultaneously to every human ear, not discord, but harmony." It appears that he doesn't believe that one race is supreme, but he does believe they should be separate. "Cubing the sphere" apparently means to separate the spherical world into four quadrants (the sides of the cube) and two poles (the top and bottom of the cube).

He also correlates his four races with the four corners of the day based on the lightness or darkness in each:

: "''The simultaneous 4 human races debunks a God for any race.''
:* ''Sunup represents Indian Race''
:* ''Midday represents White Race''
:* ''Sundown represents Asian Race''
:* ''Midnight represents Black Race''"

===Words are evil===

He constantly excoriates words, usually in connection with teachers using them to teach contrary theories and to suppress the expression of time cube theory. He also appears to believe that words are inadequate to describe his theory.

==Criticism==

Critics maintain that it is unclear how Time Cube relates to any accepted concept of time, and that it is impossible to disprove it in a meaningful way due to the lack of testable hypotheses.

Due to the general attitude that Time Cube is ] nonsense, Ray poses no threat to ] and the government, entities which he considers evil. Although most people view Ray as a ], Ray claims "many thousands" believe that he is really communicating the "Ineffable Cubic Truth of the Universe" and that he is a great thinker and wise. There is no registered organization with an official membership list to prove that he has any followers at all. Numerous websites appear to be his own work, and postings supporting the theory are frequently anonymous.

===Problems with the Time Cube symbolism===

The ''Time Cube'' theory is based on the claimed supremacy of the number '''four''', but the connection between four and the ] is weak.

The figure most often used to represent the number four is the ], a ] figure. If a solid is required to represent the number four, the most obvious candidate is the ].

There is a strong and obvious connection between four and the square, and another obvious connection between the square and the cube. But despite this there is no particularly strong relationship between four and the cube. The most that can be said is that the faces of the cube each have four equal sides and angles.

In arithmetic, four is a ], but it is '''not''' a ].

This weakness shows up in the following way. One of the ] of the cube is ignored. The sides are considered as unrelated to the top and bottom. But, an essential property of the cube is that the top and bottom are ] to the sides. To treat them specially means that what is described is not a cube in essence, but rather a right rectangular ] with a square base, a type of figure of which the cube is a special case. In this way the relatively strong connection between six and the cube is replaced by an artificial connection to four.

The whole thing, in fact, is incoherent and is mostly unintelligible--it is not possible to comprehend what ] is trying to say to us at all.

Many people view Ray to be simply insane. As a refutation, he asserts on the Time Cube website, "My wisdom so antiquates known knowledge, that a ] examining my behavior, eccentric by his academic single corner knowledge, knows no course other than to judge me ]."

==See also==
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==External links==
*: Gene Ray's official presentation
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* of Time Cube, from ]
* describing the rival Game Cube theory
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* explaining Time Cube
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Latest revision as of 20:23, 10 December 2024

American conspiracy website (1997–2015)

Not to be confused with Times Square.
Time Cube
The layout and writing style of the Time Cube website
Type of sitePersonal web page and conspiracy blog
Created byOtis Eugene "Gene" Ray
CommercialNo
Launched1997; 27 years ago (1997)
Current statusInactive

Time Cube was a pseudoscientific personal web page set up in 1997 by Otis Eugene "Gene" Ray. It was a self-published outlet for Ray's "theory of everything", also called "Time Cube", which claims that all modern sciences are participating in a worldwide conspiracy to omit his theory, which posits that each day actually consists of four days occurring simultaneously. Ray described himself as the "wisest man on earth" and a "godlike being with superior intelligence who has absolute evidence and proof" for his views. Ray asserted repeatedly and variously that the academic world had not taken Time Cube seriously.

According to Find a Grave, Ray died on 18 March 2015, and the Time Cube website registration expired in August 2015.

Website

The Time Cube website did not have a home page. A large amount of self-invented jargon is used throughout, often never defined. In one paragraph, Ray claimed that his own wisdom "so antiquates known knowledge" that a psychiatrist examining his behavior diagnosed him with schizophrenia.

Adi Robertson of The Verge commented that Ray's theory of time is "an incredibly confusing one peppered with racism and homophobia".

Time Cube concept

Diagram illustrating an aspect of the Time Cube theory which Ray describes as "LIFE ENCOMPASSES A 4–16 CUBE PRINCIPLE"

Ray's personal model of reality, called "Time Cube", states that all of modern physics and education is wrong, and argues that, among many other things, Greenwich Time is a global conspiracy. He uses various graphs (along with pictures of himself) that purport to show how each day is really four separate days—SUN-UP, MID-DAY, SUN-DOWN, and MID-NIGHT (formerly morning, early afternoon, late afternoon, and evening)—occurring simultaneously.

The following quotation from the website illustrates the recurring theme:

When the Sun shines upon Earth, 2 – major Time points are created on opposite sides of Earth – known as Midday and Midnight. Where the 2 major Time forces join, synergy creates 2 new minor Time points we recognize as Sunup and Sundown. The 4-equidistant time points can be considered as Time Square imprinted upon the circle of Earth. In a single rotation of the Earth sphere, each Time corner point rotates through the other 3-corner Time points, thus creating 16 corners, 96 hours, and 4-simultaneous 24-hour Days within a single rotation of Earth – equated to a Higher Order of Life Time Cube.

Ray offered $1,000 or $10,000 to anyone who could prove his views wrong.

Reception

Ray spoke about Time Cube at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in January 2002 as part of a student-organized extra-curricular event during the independent activities period. He repeated his $10,000 offer for professors to disprove his notions at the event; none attempted it. John C. Dvorak wrote in PC Magazine that "Metasites that track crackpot sites often say this is the number one nutty site." He also characterized the site's content as "endless blather." When asked by Martin Sargent in 2003 how it felt to be an Internet celebrity, Ray stated that it was not a position he wanted, but something he felt he had to do as "no writer or speaker understands the Time Cube." Ray also spoke about Time Cube at the Georgia Institute of Technology in April 2005, delivering a speech in which he attacked the instruction offered by academics.

In 2005, Brett Hanover made Above God, a short documentary film about Ray and Time Cube. The film was likely named after one of Ray's websites, which criticized the idea that God exists. Hanover's film won awards for Best Documentary at the Indie Memphis Film Festival and the Atlanta Underground Film Festival.

In popular culture

The song "To the End of the World" on Alestorm's 2017 album No Grave But the Sea makes several references to the Time Cube concept.

Notes

  1. Ray's website domain names expired on August 24, 2015, and Time Cube was last archived by the Wayback Machine on January 12, 2016 (January 10–14).

References

  1. ^ Robertson, Adi (September 2, 2015). "Time Cube Is Gone". The Verge. Archived from the original on September 12, 2015. Retrieved February 15, 2016.
  2. "Timecube". Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Retrieved June 25, 2016.
  3. ^ Hartwell, Mark (September 24, 2004). "Timecube.com: Where reality as we know it is a lie". The Maine Campus. Archived from the original on April 30, 2011. Retrieved July 25, 2010.
  4. ^ Dvorak, John C. (December 22, 2003). "Don't Call Them Crackpots". PC Magazine. Archived from the original on December 24, 2003. Retrieved August 20, 2018.
  5. ^ Duffy, Kate (September 19, 2002). "Truth Is Cubic?". The Phoenix. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania: Swarthmore College. Archived from the original on December 20, 2002. Retrieved July 25, 2010.
  6. https://web.archive.org/web/20080709075217/http://www.timecube.com/, "My wisdom so antiquates known knowledge, that a psychiatrist examining my behavior, eccentric by his academic single corner knowledge, knows no course other than to judge me schizoprenic."
  7. "Timecube.com Picture". Archived from the original on August 18, 2015. Retrieved September 14, 2014.
  8. "IAP 2002 Activity: Time Cube Lecture / Debate". Retrieved April 5, 2007.
  9. "Time Cube. The TechTV Interview". Unscrewed with Martin Sargent. Season 1. Episode 15. June 18, 2003. TechTV. Sargent: Gene, how do you feel about being an Internet celebrity? I mean, you're huge on the web. Ray: Well, it's not a position I wanted, it's something I had to do. I'm not a writer or speaker, but no writer or speaker understands the Time Cube.
  10. Cuneo, Joshua (April 22, 2005). "Oddball Time Cube theorist piques interest, elicits mixed response". Focus. Technique. Vol. 90, no. 31. Georgia Institute of Technology. pp. 11–14. hdl:1853/7877.
  11. "VIDEO – Brett Hanover". www.bretthanover.com. Retrieved July 12, 2023.
  12. "Above God". Archived from the original on November 9, 2014.
  13. Harrington, Chris. (October 28, 2005). "Act One among the big winners at Indie Memphis". Memphis Flyer. Contemporary Media Inc. Archived from the original. On July 30, 2010. Retrieved July 22, 2023.
  14. Finger, Michael. (April 18, 2008). "Memphians Premiere New Film at Nashville Film Festival". Memphis Flyer. Contemporary Media Inc. Archived July 29, 2010. Retrieved July 22, 2023.
  15. Alestorm – To the End of the World, retrieved February 17, 2024

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