Time Cube

The Time Cube website did not have a navigation structure such as a menu or a central home page, instead it was one long continuous 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.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."

Adi Robertson of The Verge commented that Ray's theory of time is "an incredibly confusing one peppered with racism and homophobia".

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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.{{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}}

The following quotation from the website illustrates the recurring theme:

{{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.}}

Ray offered $1,000{{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}} or $10,000 to anyone who could prove his views wrong.

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.{{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}} 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."{{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}} 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."{{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.}} 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.{{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=Technique |volume=90 |issue=31 |pages=11–14 |publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology }}

In 2005, Brett Hanover made Above God, a short documentary film about Ray and Time Cube.{{Cite web |title=VIDEO – Brett Hanover |url=http://www.bretthanover.com/video.html |access-date=2023-07-12 |website=www.bretthanover.com}} The film was likely named after one of Ray's websites, which criticized the idea that God exists.{{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}} Hanover's film won awards for Best Documentary at the Indie Memphis Film Festival and the Atlanta Underground Film Festival.Harrington, Chris. (October 28, 2005). [https://web.archive.org/web/20100730113943/http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/act-one-among-the-big-winners-at-indie-memphis/Content?oid=1123189 "Act One among the big winners at Indie Memphis"]. Memphis Flyer. Contemporary Media Inc. Archived from [http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/act-one-among-the-big-winners-at-indie-memphis/Content?oid=1123189 the original]. On July 30, 2010. Retrieved July 22, 2023.Finger, Michael. (April 18, 2008). [http://www.memphisflyer.com/TheDailyBuzz/archives/2008/04/18/memphians-premiere-new-film-at-nashville-film-festival "Memphians Premiere New Film at Nashville Film Festival"]. Memphis Flyer. Contemporary Media Inc. [https://web.archive.org/web/20100729161831/http://www.memphisflyer.com/TheDailyBuzz/archives/2008/04/18/memphians-premiere-new-film-at-nashville-film-festival Archived] July 29, 2010. Retrieved July 22, 2023.

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.{{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}}

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20150506055228/http://www.timecube.com/index.html Official website] archived at the Wayback Machine on May 6, 2015
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn2UCqL5qyo Gene Ray interviewed] on Tech TV
• {{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=Find a Grave |language=en}}

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