Time Cube

The Time Cube website had no home page.[3] It consisted of a number of web pages that contained a single vertical centre-aligned column of body text in various sizes and colors, resulting in the main pages being extremely long. Finding any particular passage was almost impossible without manually searching.[4]

Within the text of Time Cube, Ray used cryptic language that included insults and non-sequiturs; one example is the often quoted line "Belly-Button Logic Works. When Does Teenager Die? Adults Eat Teenagers Alive, No Record Of Their Death." The text also contains a vague cynical narrative with numerous unique digressions that appears to reflect on his childhood.[3] A large amount of self-invented jargon is used throughout, similar to verbal logorrhea: some words and phrases are used frequently but never defined, likely terms materially referring to the weakness of widely propagated ideas that he detests throughout the text, that are usually capitalised even when used as adjectives. In one paragraph, he claimed that because his own wisdom "so antiquates known knowledge," a psychiatrist examining his behavior diagnosed him with schizophrenia.[9]

Articles have proclaimed that it is futile to analyze the text rationally, interpret meaningful proofs from the text, or test any claims.[3][10]

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 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.[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.

Although most of the concepts presented remain somewhat consistent throughout the various texts it is unclear what line of reasoning could have led to any of the conclusions that are presented, the underlying theory from which the ideas were sprung remaining arcane and indecipherable to any rational analysis.

Ray offered $1,000[11] 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]