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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. | 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== | ==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 |
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 organisation 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. | |||
==See also== | ==See also== |
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The Time Cube is a concept promoted by Gene Ray on his Time Cube website, postulating that time is somehow cubic or four-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 scientifically investigable. 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 kookery.
Nature's Harmonic Simultaneous 4-Day Time Cube
Supremacy of four
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 four humours and the four elements. These classes are called corners. There are several sets of corners mentioned:
- 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
4-day
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.
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 universal Greenwich Mean Time standard evil 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."
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.
4-year
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.
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 AboveGod.com), "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 eccentric nonsense, Ray poses no threat to academia and the government, entities which he considers evil. Although most people view Ray as a crank, 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 organisation 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.
See also
External links
- Time Cube: Gene Ray's official presentation
- Your Unofficial Time Cube Resource
- Above God
- Time Cube page on CrankDotNet
- Time Cube lecture synopsis
- Time Cube lecture video (archive)
- A parody of Time Cube, from Something Awful
- Another parody describing the rival Game Cube theory
- Yet another parody
- A letter from Gene Ray explaining Time Cube
- Interview with Gene Ray