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Revision as of 01:19, 12 August 2005
The Time Cube is the name of a hypothesis created by Gene Ray and the website he uses to publicize this hypothesis. Some of the main assertions of this hypothesis are that time is cubic, that there are four simultaneous 24 hour days in one rotation of the Earth and that Gene Ray is wiser than all gods and scientists. Time Cube contains some characteristics of a conspiracy theory (such as the belief that "Evil educators suppress student free speech right to debate Cubic Creation."), and is widely regarded as deliberate surrealism, crank and absurdism.
The Time Cube website
Time Cube's website has become widely imitated and parodied due to its long portions of large-font text in a variety of colors, much of it of limited coherence (see External links for links to these websites). The website purports to explain everything by means of "4 simultaneous 24 hour days within a single rotation of Earth", and asserts that ordinary humans cannot understand this because they "are educated singularity stupid by academic bastards".
Some of the website's statements and claims bear a resemblance to conspiracy theories, and most people view Dr. Ray's writings as sufficiently indecipherable to the point that it is unclear whether they are a hoax.
Impact of the Time Cube hypothesis
Though the website is generally seen as incoherent or as a deliberately humorous example of absurdism or surrealism, there are some who claim to understand and follow Ray's views. The number and opinions of these believers is indeterminate, and it is unclear whether other websites are serious attempts to legitimise the Time Cube theory or subtle parodies.
External links
- Official site
- Cubic Awareness Online A fansite with Cubic explanations.
- Graveyard of the Gods The official Cubicist forum.
- Above God, The Greatest Thinker, The Wisest Human: Gene Ray's auxiliary official sites
- Time Cube page on CrankDotNet
- Time Cube MIT lecture/debate synopsis
- A letter from Gene Ray explaining Time Cube
- Interview with Gene Ray
- Time Cube lecture at Georgia Tech. April 14, 2005.
- Insolitology's Time Cube page about "the greatest internet crank"
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