Time Cube

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Image:Timegrab.png 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 also that it proves the existence of four simultaneous 24-hour days in one rotation of the Earth. Ray has challenged universities, academics, students and the media 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, which promotes 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 unconventional grammar, and has been widely parodied. Some of the writing serves as an explanation of the Time Cube itself, while other parts expound upon the Cubic social ramifications, and describe a large number of Cubeless people as being "stupid and evil".

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".

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The Time Cube concept

In August of 1997, 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.

It is difficult to separate the allegedly 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.<ref name="TC">Template:Cite web</ref>

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General claims

  • "[There are] 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[s] as opposite values."
  • "[Gene Ray is] wiser than all gods and scientists."
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Physics Claims

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

  • "−1 × −1 = +1 is stupid and evil."
  • "3.20 [is] the perfect value of π."
  • "[Gene Ray has] squared the circle." (see Squaring the circle)
  • 4 is the supreme number of the universe.
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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 [are] 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."
  • "Educators teach assumed math"
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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."
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Religious claims

  • "Time Cube disproves God."
  • "Christianity is subservient to the Jews."
  • "[The] 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."
  • "God = Hate of Children."
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Wikipedia claims

  • "Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia $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 & Wikipedia are evil to deny or ignore Cubic Creation. Is Wikipedia a Singularity Brotherhood controlled Trojan Horse indoctrination - that edits Time Cube to a negative view? Who edits the Time Cube on Wikipedia? 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?"
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Public debate of the concept

Image:Time cube mit 2002.jpg There are some who claim to understand and follow Ray's views. The specific number of actual believers is unknown, as Time Cube has no organisation behind it and exists primarily as an internet phenomenon. It is also believed by many that internet posts that attempt to elaborate on the concept 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. Many academics have viewed 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".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lib.hcu.edu.tw/journal/files/CAS02_PDF/CAS0206.pdf |title= "Proving Human Stupidity": Time Cube, Gnosis, and the Challenge of Radical Cosmology |first=Bei |last=Dawei |format=PDF |accessdate=2006-03-06}}</ref>

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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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Refutations of Time Cube claims

Critics have alleged that most claims made by Time Cube are either too vague, or too poorly defined, to be refuted or falsified. However, there exist proofs that a negative number times a negative number is a positive number, working solely from a very small set of set theoretic axioms and axioms for first-order predicate logic.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> This refutes the claim that there is anything strange about −1 × −1 = 1. There also exists a proof for the Lindemann-Weierstrass theorem which proves that pi is transcendental and thus cannot be rational, nor constructible. This both refutes the claim that pi is equal to 3.20 exactly, and proves the impossibility of squaring the circle.

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Pro-Cubic

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Refutations

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Cubic publicity

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Academic lectures

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Parodies

Simple:Cubic_time

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