Time Cube

Time Cube

The layout and writing style of the Time Cube website.
URL	http://www.timecube.com
Commercial?	No
Type of site	Personal web page
Available language(s)	English
Created by	Gene Ray

Time Cube is a website created by Gene Ray in 1997^[1] where he sets out his personal theory of reality, which he calls Time Cube.^[2] As well as suggesting that all of modern physics is wrong,^[2] the theory and website propose that each day is really four separate days occurring simultaneously.^[1][3] John C. Dvorak wrote in PC Magazine that "Metasites that track crackpot sites often say this is the number one nutty site."^[2]

[edit] Concept

The following quotation from the TimeCube.com website illustrates a recurring theme from Gene Ray's ideas:

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 has wagered $10,000 that his theories cannot be proven wrong.^[2] The site has been criticized for the "centered 30-point type" of its design and the "endless blather" of its content.^[2]

[edit] Public reaction

Ray spoke about Time Cube at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in January 2002 as part of the Independent Activities Period, a student-organized extra-curricular event.^[4] He repeated his $10,000 offer for professors to disprove his theories at the event; none attempted it.^[3]

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".^[5] Ray also spoke about Time Cube at the Georgia Institute of Technology in April 2005, in a speech in which he attacked the instruction offered by academics.^[6]

A 2004 editorial in The Maine Campus student newspaper remarked upon the site's "subtle little racist ideologies" which culminate in Ray describing racial integration as "destroying all of the races".^[1]

In 2005, Brett Hanover made Above God, a short documentary film about Ray and Time Cube,^[7] which won awards for Best Documentary at the Indie Memphis Film Festival and the Atlanta Underground Film Festival.^[8][9]

[edit] Precursor

Before Time Cube, Ray advocated the sport of marbles. He authored a book titled Mr. Marbles – Marbles for Everyone,^[10] and got the city council of St. Petersburg, Florida to proclaim a "Marbles Week" in the 1970s. In 1987, this became a controversial attempt to establish a million dollar marble tournament inside a huge round structure and establish a philosophical "Order of the Sphere".^[11]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

Internet portal

• TimeCube.com
• Jon (2003-09-20). "archived MIT Time Cube lecture" (MOV). http://www.bordergatewayprotocol.net/jon/media/video/timecube/.  hosted at Border Gateway Protocol
• Cubic Clock
• Liturgy of the Cube and the Smashing of the Spherical/Non-Cubic Shaped Fruit