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Time Cube

Don't Panic! It gets worse!

"All are lunatics, but he who can analyse his delusions is called a philosopher."

—Ambrose Bierce

Internet crackpots have never been in short supply, from free range trolls of many different subspecies to rampaging fundies to shippers with upsettingly poor judgement.

And then there is Time Cube.

"Time Cube" refers to the "scientific" "theory" proposed by Gene Ray, self proclaimed "Cubic Phenomenologist", "Doctor of Cubism" and "Wisest Human", which espouses the concept that time is cubic. This meaning that Earth's two hemispheres are not fixed geographic points on a round planet, but two separate metaphysical spheres that rotate independent of each other and cancel each other out as antipodes.* As a result, four 24-hour days (or alternately, one 96-hour day) takes place in what we perceive to be one standard 24-hour day. He has also stated that nothing is able to exist without an exact and polar opposite. These theories have been described by some physicists as, in very technical scientific terms "being wrong". Yet other physicists counter that "wrong" is a too charitable description of the site.

"Dr" Ray's website (viewed here

) has been a target of internet humor, mostly for his rambling writing style, incoherent beliefs and blatant racism, anti-semitism, homophobia and just plain hatred for humans in general. He has stated that the refusal of any institute of higher learning to accept his theories is the result of a massive conspiracy, and that anyone who rejects or remains ignorant of his ideas should be killed and is doomed to Hell (always the sign of a credible scientist). It is perhaps significant that Gene Ray is a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, a fact which he has announced publicly on several occasions.

This work provides examples of:

A God Am I: "God created only a single 24 hour day rotation of Earth, while I have created 4 simultaneous 24 hour days within a single rotation of Earth - therefore, I am wiser than the word god, and all word worshipers".
Arc Number: The number four pops up a lot.
Author Existence Failure: According to the other wiki, Gene Ray's updates were once very frequent. Then, they became very infrequent, before stopping entirely in September 2009. This, plus allusions to cancer in the Time Cube writings, implies that Ray may have suffered this trope.
- A site update was logged in July 2010 - "Dr." Ray may not have shuffled off this four-sided coil just yet.
- The second page (yes, Second page) says it was modified on March-17-11 if you check the page info, so he's still at it, it seems.
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: The 4 people Gene uses as examples of his 1 96-hour day rotation (i.e., one for each conventional day) are Jesus, Socrates, Einstein and Bill Clinton.
Author Tract
Awesome McCoolname: 'Gene Ray' sounds like something a supervillain would use to Take Over the World. Or the host of Match Game.
Blasphemous Boast: "I AM WISER THAN ANY DAMN MAN OR GOD WHO EVER EXISTED. IF THE HALF AND HALF CO-CREATED JESUS RETURNS TO EARTH, I WILL PERSONALLY KILL THE BASTARD MYSELF."
Bold Inflation: Almost nothing BUT. Combines this with Rainbow Speak.
Brown Note: Reading the site for too long is not really good for your mental health... Note the crazy text layouts bear some distinct resemblances to House of Leaves.
Cloud Cuckoolander: The author
Conspiracy Theorist: Gene Ray believes that any rejection of his theories by academic institutions is the result of this, and not because the only research shown on his site is crudely drawn squares, apparently representing Earth.
Creator Breakdown: It would explain a lot...
Department of Redundancy Department: Most of the text volume is the same few points repeated over and over and over...
- About halfway down the page, there's a subheading which says "CUBIC TIME CUBES"
Eats Babies: This.
Exactly What It Says on the Tin: It's called Time Cube. It's about how time is a cube.
- Except that a cube has six sides, not four....
- And it has eight corners, not four...
- Cube as in something squared.
- And if all the times of the day existing simultaneously in different parts of the Earth are separate time streams, wouldn't they form a seamless timesphere rather than a granular morning-day-evening-night "cube"?
- Of course not. That only proves we're educated stupid.
Felony Misdemeanor: Gene is fond of labeling everyone and everything opposed to his philosophy (read: everyone and everything but himself) as "evil."
From Bad to Worse: There's a Second page. Possibly more.
Grumpy Old Man: Ray
Half Breed Discrimination: "Interracial marriage is stupid and evil for it creates a child not of either race, betraying the child and both the races."
Hollywood Atheist: "BELIEVERS IN QUEER JEW GOD ARE EVIL!!"
Humans Are Bastards: After all, evil word god is their concept...
Insane Troll Logic: Earth is really two round Earths compressed into a cube, where it takes 24 hours for 96 hours to pass, and anyone who uses common, ordinary logic, physics, and thought says otherwise is just an evil brainwashed tool of Big Academia.
- It took this explanation before someone made the connection to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which has radial two-dimensional time called probability. Apparently, time isn't merely "the fourth dimension of spacetime", IT ITSELF HAS FOUR DIMENSIONS. Also, it seems that speaking or teaching the English language is itself a form of lying. Newspeak can never describe the concepts needed to disprove its philosophies, which is a self-consistent reason for him to continually ignore/defy EVIL STUPID grammatical rules.
Internet Tough Guy
Jerkass: He is just not that fond of other people.
Know-Nothing Know-It-All: He not only implies that this revelation makes him smarter than God, all scientists and everyone else in the world put together, but, if you can't understand the Time Cube concept, you should be put to death as punishment.
Magic Versus Science: If scientist can't burn Bible, he is a liar, not scientist.
Milkman Conspiracy: Apparently, the evil forces of the world have come together to hide the truth about the shape of the earth. And this is somehow related to jews, gays, black people and everybody else.
MIND SCREW
Misanthrope Supreme: He does not like black people. Or white people. Or gay people, or straight people, or Jews, or Christians, or teachers, or "scientists," or...
New Speak: "Oneism", "Self-God", "Sex Poles" and other phrases made up to describe the supposedly evil information and science taught in schools and colleges.
- "Sunup" and "sundown" instead of "sunrise" and "sunset", though they are legitimate English words.
- "Cyclop", obviously derived from mistaking the word "cyclops" for a plural.
Racist Grandpa: Ray
Rainbow Speak: The posts have different sentences and words colored differently with no apparent rhyme or reason.
Room Full of Crazy: In website form.
Self-Defeating Prophet:
"Beware of the change when your brain is free from induced 'Word World' enslavement - for you could find that the natural "Real World" has been destroyed."
Small Name, Big Ego
Sophisticated as Hell: The whole thing is written this way, both with swears and general juvenile terms (like "Word God has not the substance of a fart", "[if you were not based of mathematical perfection] your arm would be too short to wipe your butt", and "SnotBrain Android").
Space Does Not Work That Way: Earth takes roughly 24 hours to spin around completely. It's not that hard.
Science Is Wrong: Ray apparently knows about mainstream physics and astronomy, but just dismisses them as "ACADEMIC SINGULARITY ONEISM THAT YOU MUST OPPOSITE THINK!!"
Stealth Parody: Most probably averted. The sheer density of troll logic, vitriol, etc, might make it seem implausable to be otherwise, but there's a reason Poe's Law was formulated. He has mentioned that he was diagnosed as having paranoid schizophrenia and refused treatment for it (deciding that the people who diagnosed him were part of the conspiracy). He's also been interviewed on television in the past, and he's every bit as crazy and incoherent when actually speaking as he is when writing. If he's a Stealth Parody then it's a very dedicated one, and all signs point to him just being completely insane.
Talkative Loon
The Schizophrenia Conspiracy: A possible explanation for this web site (see Stealth Parody above).
Viewers Are Evil Morons: Every few sentences explain how you, the Viewer, are a moron who has been "educated stupid."
- Are you stupid and evil?
Wall of Text: The Rainbow Speak does nothing to make this any easier on your eyes.
We All Live in America: Much text is devoted to how stupid Americans are for ignoring Cube Theory and how the we will know hell for ignoring Gene, but no thought is given to any other part of the world except to mention how the blacks should all move back to Africa.
Word Salad Philosophy
- "A mother and baby are the same age"
  - This is more of a Mathematician's Answer or Ice Cream Koan, since he seems to mean that a woman only becomes a mother when she has a baby, so the "mother" has only existed for as long as the baby.
  - Unless it's her second baby.
- This lends even more support to The Schizophrenia Conspiracy, as one of the major symptoms of schizophrenia is disorganized speech, or (appropriately named) "word salad."
Writers Cannot Do Math: Compounds the below-stated problem. For the basics, cubes have eight corners, not four.
- Ray claims to have come up with the theory by squaring the circle of the Earth. Mathematicians have long known that squaring circles with a compass and a straightedge is impossible.
Artistic License - Physics: 4 corners is not 1/4 or 4/16 of a cube.
- Not to mention, a cube is a six sided figure. Not four.
  - Having no respect for the meaning of words, he seems to mean edges, not corners, as shown in this diagram◊ where he labelled 4 parallel edges of a cube as "corners".
  - He did. He also insists to refer to two sides of a cube as top and bottom, insisting that they're not sides. Which really DOES leave only four sides left.
  - He almost showed his work when he labeled them specifically as "vertical edges". If he simply said "edge = corner" then that would mean a cube had TWELVE corners, but he seems to have an issue discriminating betwenen 2D and 3D space, referring to it like "the corners of a room". Nevermind that in 3D space "vertical" is relative, so someone in equatorial Africa looking towards the Atlantic ocean would see those as the "horizontal" edges. And someone looking southwest from Greenland would see them as off-center diagonal points and dear god I think I know why he went nuts.
- If time is a cube that depends on the rotation of Earth, how does time work in space?