The layout and writing style of the Time Cube website. |
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| URL | timecube.com |
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| 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]
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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[4] 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]
Ray spoke about Time Cube at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in January 2002 as part of the Independent Activities Period, a student-organized extra-curricular event.[5] 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".[6] 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.[7]
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,[8] which won awards for Best Documentary at the Indie Memphis Film Festival and the Atlanta Underground Film Festival.[9][10]
Before Time Cube, Otis E. Ray advocated the sport of marbles. He authored a book titled Mr. Marbles – Marbles for Everyone,[11] and got the city council of St. Petersburg, Florida to proclaim a "Marbles Week" in the 1970's. 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."[12] Gene Ray is listed as President and Treasurer of the World Professional Marbles Players Association. "Otis E. Ray" 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" [13].