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 it proves the existence of four simultaneous 24-hour days in one rotation of the Earth. Ray has challenged newspapers and academics 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 promoting 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 curious syntax and has been widely parodied. Some of the writing attempts to explain Time Cube itself, but Ray devotes much of the site to insulting and threatening those who are opposed to his philosophy.

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 theory

In August of 1997, Ray created his well-known website to publicize a theoretical link between cubes and time. On the

It is difficult to separate the 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

• " 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 as opposite values."
• " wiser than all gods and scientists."

Physics Claims

• "Earth 2 opposite hemispheres rotating in opposite directions."
• "Time is Cubic and not linear."
• "Earth composed of 4 Worlds."
• "Earth is not an entity."
• "Planets created via opposite rotating poles."

Mathematical claims

• "-1 x -1=+1 is stupid and evil."
• "3.20 the perfect value of π."
• " squared the circle." (see Squaring 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 stupidity."
• "Educators are the primary cause of evil mathematics."
• "Physicists 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."

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."
• " 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."

claims

• " allowing the educated stupid to evaluate the 4 simultaneous 24 hr. days within a single rotation of Earth, equates allowing atheist to proof-read the bible. Dr. Gene Ray --- is the only authoritative Time Cube expert, at www.timecube.com."
• "Dr. Gene Ray offers $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 hr. days. Both Americans & are evil to deny or ignore Cubic Creation. Is a Singularity Brotherhood controlled Trojan Horse indoctrination - that edits Time Cube to a negative view? Who edits the Time Cube on ? It is evil for Coryoth to edit Time Cube. Will I get a reply or will the Wisest Human just be ignored until silenced by death?"

Public debate of the theory

There are some who claim to understand and follow Ray's views. The specific number of actual believers is unknown, as websites and internet posts that attempt to elaborate on the theory 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. Nearly all academics view 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 who, undeterred by Ray's psychiatrist's objections that it was deleterious to his mental health, invited him to speak. 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.

See also

• Crank (person) (Gene Ray is regarded by Erik Max Francis, among others, as the of a "crank" in the pejorative sense.)
• Cube
• Scientific method
• Theory of everything
• List of alternative, speculative and disputed theories

Refutations

• , : 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.
• : Note: the author EWM has never received $1000 or $10,000 for disproving 4 days in a rotation.

Cubic publicity

• explaining Time Cube

Link repository

Academic lectures

• : Includes DVD of lecture for sale

Parodies

• : A parody of Time Cube, from Something Awful
• describing the rival Game Cube theory
• Randomly generates Time Cube-like text
• Slime Cube on Uncyclopedia
• - An episode of Bonus Stage mocking the website.
• - A review of the Time Cube RPG. Time Cube

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