| Revision as of 06:19, 27 February 2006 editBryan Derksen (talk | contribs)Extended confirmed users95,333 edits Looks like Time Cube Guy's found himself another IP range to post from. This anon user's edits were identical to 211.28.*'s, reverting.← Previous edit | Latest revision as of 20:23, 10 December 2024 edit undoIssac I Navarro (talk | contribs)Extended confirmed users1,238 editsm Grammar clean up. If I made a mistake please correct me. | ||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
| {{Short description|American conspiracy website (1997–2015)}} | |||
| .]] | |||
| {{Blacklisted-links|1= | |||
| '''Time Cube''' is the ] that ] is ], a cryptic concept which is a frequent target of ]. The idea was created by ], who claims it proves the existence of four simultaneous 24-hour ]s in one rotation of the ]. Ray has challenged newspapers and academics to debate the subject, though most reject Time Cube, for reasons such as considering it to be ] or ], or to lack testable ]. | |||
| *https://web.archive.org/web/20150818113418/http://www.timecube.com/timecubeflierimg.gif | |||
| *:''Triggered by <code>\btimecube\.com\b</code> on the local blacklist''|bot=Cyberbot II|invisible=true}} | |||
| {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2020}} | |||
| {{Confused|Times Square}}{{Infobox website | |||
| Ray's ] promoting Time Cube as a ] started gaining notoriety in ]. It uses a distinctive combination of simple drawings, colorful large-] text, obscure statements and curious syntax and has been widely ]. 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. | |||
| | 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> | |||
| }} | |||
| }} | |||
| '''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/> | |||
| Though he is dismissed as a ], Ray is outspoken in defending Time Cube and refers to ] 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 ]—and sometimes goes by the title ''Dr. Gene Ray - Wisest Human on Earth''. Followers of Time Cube are known as "Cubicists" or "Cubics". | |||
| == |
== Website == | ||
| 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/> | |||
| In August of ], Ray created his well-known website to publicize a theoretical link between cubes and time. On the site, there are a number of claims relating to physics and mathematics, some of which can arguably be tested. | |||
| == Time Cube concept == | |||
| 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. | |||
| ] | |||
| 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: | |||
| ===General claims=== | |||
| {{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.}} | |||
| * " 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." | |||
| 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. | |||
| ===Physics Claims=== | |||
| ==Reception== | |||
| * "Earth 2 opposite hemispheres rotating in opposite directions." | |||
| 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> | |||
| * "Time is Cubic and not linear." | |||
| * "Earth composed of 4 Worlds." | |||
| * "Earth is not an entity." | |||
| * "Planets created via opposite rotating poles." | |||
| 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> | |||
| ===Mathematical claims=== | |||
| * "-1 x -1=+1 is stupid and evil." | |||
| * "3.20 the perfect value of ]." | |||
| * " squared the circle." (see ]) | |||
| * 4 is the supreme number of the universe. | |||
| == In popular culture == | |||
| ===Education claims=== | |||
| 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> | |||
| * "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." | |||
| == |
==Notes== | ||
| {{notelist}} | |||
| * "Sunup represents Indian Race; Midday represents White Race; Sundown represents Asian Race; Midnight represents Black Race." | |||
| ==References== | |||
| * "All past Great Civilizations have been destroyed by minorities." | |||
| {{Reflist|30em}} | |||
| * "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." | |||
| ===Misplaced Pages claims=== | |||
| * "Misplaced Pages 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 Misplaced Pages $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 & Misplaced Pages are evil to deny or ignore Cubic Creation. Is Misplaced Pages a Singularity Brotherhood controlled Trojan Horse indoctrination - that edits Time Cube to a negative view? Who edits the Time Cube on Misplaced Pages? 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 ], but he has never indicated that this is the case. Some speculators have suggested that vehement Cube-supporters on bulletin boards and elsewhere are ] 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 ] has published an article about Time Cube. The piece compares Ray to the visionary astronomer ], and is titled ''"Proving Human Stupidity: Time Cube, Gnosis, and the Challenge of Radical Cosmology"''. | |||
| In the Spring of ], Gene was invited by several ] 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 ], Gene lectured and debated Time Cube with students at ] 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 ] in April of ]. | |||
| ==See also== | |||
| * ] (Gene Ray is regarded by ], among others, as the of a "crank" in the pejorative sense.) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | |||
| ==External links== | ==External links== | ||
| {{Portal|Internet}} | |||
| ===Pro-Cubic=== | |||
| * | * archived at the ] on May 6, 2015 | ||
| * on ] | |||
| *, , : Gene Ray's auxiliary official sites | |||
| * {{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}} | |||
| * A fansite with Cubic explanations. | |||
| * The official Cubicist forum. | |||
| ===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 ] | |||
| * describing the rival Game Cube theory | |||
| * Randomly generates Time Cube-like text | |||
| * | |||
| *] on ] | |||
| * - An episode of ] mocking the website. | |||
| * - A review of the Time Cube RPG. | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | ] | ||
| ] | ] | ||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
Latest revision as of 20:23, 10 December 2024
American conspiracy website (1997–2015)Not to be confused with Times Square.
 The layout and writing style of the Time Cube website | |
| Type of site | Personal web page and conspiracy blog |
|---|---|
| Created by | Otis Eugene "Gene" Ray |
| Commercial | No |
| Launched | 1997; 28 years ago (1997) |
| Current status | Inactive |
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
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
- 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
- ^ Robertson, Adi (September 2, 2015). "Time Cube Is Gone". The Verge. Archived from the original on September 12, 2015. Retrieved February 15, 2016.
- "Timecube". Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Retrieved June 25, 2016.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- 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."
- "Timecube.com Picture". Archived from the original on August 18, 2015. Retrieved September 14, 2014.
- "IAP 2002 Activity: Time Cube Lecture / Debate". Retrieved April 5, 2007.
- "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.
- 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.
- "VIDEO – Brett Hanover". www.bretthanover.com. Retrieved July 12, 2023.
- "Above God". Archived from the original on November 9, 2014.
- 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.
- 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.
- Alestorm – To the End of the World, retrieved February 17, 2024
External links
- Official website archived at the Wayback Machine on May 6, 2015
- Gene Ray interviewed on Tech TV
- "Otis Eugene Ray (1927-2015) - Find a Grave..." Find a Grave. Retrieved November 29, 2024.