Time Cube

For the album by rock band Journey, see Time³.

Time Cube

The layout and writing style of the Time Cube website.
URL	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, also known as Otis E. Ray, in 1997^[1] where he sets out his personal model of reality, which he calls Time Cube.^[2] He suggests that all of modern physics is wrong, in addition to claiming religion to be evil, specifically Christianity, and the idea of family is poisoning children.^[2] The model proposes 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]

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]

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]

Precursor

Before Time Cube, Otis E. 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] Ray Gene is listed as President and Treasurer of the World Professional Marbles Players Association. He is also listed as the owner of US patents 4179122 and 4393618 for a "Marble game apparatus" and a "Novelty written message device suitable for mailing" ^[12].

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} The Maine Campus: Timecube.com: Where reality as we know it is a lie, Mark Hartwell, The Maine Campus, September 24, 2004. Retrieved July 25, 2010.
2. ^ ^{a b c d e} Dvorak, John C. (2003-12-22). "Don't Call Them Crackpots". PC magazine. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1420072,00.asp. 
3. ^ ^{a b} "Truth is cubic?", by Kate Duffy,The Phoenix, Swarthmore College, September 19, 2002. Archived by the Internet Archive, archive copy retrieved July 25, 2010.
4. ^ "IAP 2002 Activity: Time Cube Lecture / Debate". http://web.mit.edu/iap/www/iap02/searchiap/iap-4330.html. Retrieved 2007-04-05. 
5. ^ Unscrewed with Martin Sargent on TechTV, season 1, episode 15 (aired 2003-06-18). "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."
6. ^ "Oddball Time Cube theorist piques interest, elicits mixed response", by Joshua Cuneo, The Technique, Georgia Institute of Technology, April 22, 2005. Retrieved July 25, 2010.
7. ^ Above God, Brett Hanover official site. Retrieved July 25, 2010.
8. ^ "Act One among the big winners at Indie Memphis", by Chris Herrington, October 28, 2005, Memphis Flyer. Retrieved July 25, 2010.
9. ^ "Memphians Premiere New Film at Nashville Film Festival", Michael Finger, April 18, 2008, Memphis Flyer. Retrieved July 25, 2010.
10. ^ "Marble Book Bibliography", Museum of American Glass in West Virginia. Retrieved July 25, 2010.
11. ^ "'Mr. Marbles' isn't playing a game anymore", by Stephen Koff, St. Petersburg Times, March 14, 1987. Retrieved July 25, 2010.
12. ^ http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=pts&hl=en&q=ininventor:%22Otis+E.+Ray%22

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
• Bei Dawei. "'Proving Human Stupidity': Time Cube, Gnosis, and the Challenge of Radical Cosmology". Library of Hsuan Chuang University. http://www.lib.hcu.edu.tw/journal/files/CAS/CAS0206.pdf. Retrieved March 23, 2011.