Otis Eugene Ray died on March 18, 2015 at the age of 87. [6] Ray's website domain names expired in August 2015, [7] and Time Cube was last archived by the Wayback Machine on January 12, 2016. (January 10–14) [8] An accurate mirror of the site is currently being hosted and maintained as of 2019. [9]

Time Cube was a personal web page , founded in 1997 by the self-proclaimed "wisest man on earth", Otis Eugene "Gene" Ray. [3] It was a self-published outlet for Ray's theory of everything , called "Time Cube", which claims that all modern sciences are participating in a worldwide conspiracy to teach lies, by omitting his theory's alleged truth that each day actually consists of four days. [4] Alongside these statements, Ray described himself as a "godlike being with superior intelligence who has absolute evidence and proof" for his views. Ray asserted repeatedly and variously that " academia " had not taken Time Cube seriously. [5]

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The Time Cube website had no home page or separate sections.[3] It consisted of a single web page that contained a vertical column of centered body text of various sizes and colors.[4]

Ray used cryptic language that included insults and non-sequitur lines such as "Belly-Button Logic© Works. When Does Teenager Die? Adults Eat Teenagers Alive, No Record Of Their Death." The narrative weaved in and out of his metaphysical ideas with numerous unique digressions.[3] In one paragraph he claimed that because his own wisdom "so antiquates known knowledge", a psychiatrist examining his behavior diagnosed him with schizophrenia.[10]

Some have claimed it is futile to analyze the text rationally, locate meaningful proofs in the text, or verify any evidence.[3][11]

Time Cube concept Edit

Diagram illustrating an aspect of the Time Cube theory which Ray describes as "LIFE ENCOMPASSES A 4-16 CUBE PRINCIPLE"

Ray's personal model of reality, called "Time Cube", states that all of modern physics and education is wrong,[4] and argues that, among many other things, Greenwich Time is a global conspiracy. He utilizes various graphs (along with pictures of himself) that purport to show how each day is really four separate days—sunup, midday, sundown, and midnight (formerly morning, early afternoon, late afternoon, and evening)—occurring simultaneously.[3][5]

The following quotation from the website illustrates the recurring theme:

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[12] or $10,000[5] to anyone who could prove his views wrong. Mike Hartwell of The Maine Campus wrote that any attempt to claim the prize would require convincing Ray that his theory was invalid. The proof would need to be framed in terms of his own model, thus deviating from any form of modern science. "Even if you could pull that off", Hartwell said, "Ray is probably broke".[3]