The Time Cube

About

The Time Cube is a pseudo-scientific theory of time and space developed by Gene Ray, which asserts that there are four simultaneous days created within a single rotation of the Earth. Largely due to the controversial aspects of Ray’s theory on everything, both the website and the puzzling concept of Time Cube have become the subject of tongue-in-cheek parodies and satires on the Internet.

Origin

In August 1997, Gene Ray, an American electrician living in Florida, posted an early draft of Nature’s Harmonic Simultaneous 4-day Time Cube on his website timecube.com. Using only colorful and oversized HTML text, occasional diagrams and ill-equipped metaphors, Ray argued that time-space continuum of the universe is shaped like a cube, while blaming the academic circles for denying the ineffable truth of “four days per rotation”:

In the grand scheme of Time-Cubism, 4 is considered the supreme number of the universe and thus time-space continuum can be divided into four classes, much like the Greeks did with the four humours and the four elements. These classes are called corners, which can be applied across several category fields:

• The four corners of the day are midnight, 6 AM, noon, and 6 PM
• The four corners of complexion are black, white, Asian, and Indian
• The four corners/stages of a person’s lifetime are baby, child, parent, and grandparent
• The four corners of a person’s head are the face, two ears, and back of the head
• The four corners of Earth are four arbitrary quadrants
• The four corners of the year are the four seasons
  

Spread

The earliest known parody of Time-Cubism can be found in this satirical article about Gene Ray’s scientismic accomplishments, written by the user known as Anwar and posted on October 26, 2001. The article’s headline read “Timecube proves true, Gene Ray wins Nobel Prize for physics.”

The number of online references explicitly made to Time-Cubism is surprisingly extensive and has drawn lots of criticisms from skeptical netizens, media and academic circles alike. For more examples of Time Cube parodies, you can check out this webpage as well as the timeline of derivatives (in chronological order):

Media Coverage & Interviews

Aside from gaining notoriety through internet humor forums, YTMND sites and satirical encyclopedic projects, the subject of Time-Cubism has been also featured in numerous documentaries and press interviews.

A documentary on Time Cube on YouTube (November 29, 2006)

In November of 2007, Youtuber Pyramid0rz (who is also the creator of cubicao.com mentioned below) began uploading his 18-part video series documenting his visit with Gene Ray.

ALSO SEE: Mike from Trephination.com corresponds with Gene Ray