That’s an excellent description-you nailed it.
(Oh, and sorry for the double posts-I should have combined them, I don’t know what I was thinking.)
So did you ever get that reply? I totally dig him and I didn’t even ask my doctor for LSD yet.
Well, that’s weird. I saw the thread title and thought “Who the hell would be stupid enough to email Gene Ray?”
Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there! 
Srsly, did you ever get a reply?
Maybe I’ll shoot him an email and see what he’s up to.
I don’t even remember sending the email (which is worrying), but I’m guessing if I got a reply, that would have been memorable - so no.
Or else the reply was so mind-shatteringly terrifying–an eldritch abomination of an e-mail, filled with uncanny non-Euclidean logic–that you’ve blotted the entire episode from your mind.
Any…gaps…in your memory from October 2006?
Has anybody pointed out to the guy that it’s almost never 24 hours between sunrises and sundowns? For instance, today to tomorrow, in Berlin, it’s 23:59 between sunrise and sunrise (8:14 to 8:13), and 24:01 between sundowns (16:12 to 16:13). This of course gets worse the closer you get to the polar regions, where there may be months between consecutive sunrises and sundowns…
Actually, I think he’s got a point. Different cultures define the start of day in different ways. In some, it’s midnight to midnight. In some it’s dawn to dawn. In some, it’s sunset to sunset. I don’t know if any measure noon to noon, though.
Well, I’m convinced.
Mangetout, maybe give it another try? It’s time. Time for Time Cube.
He’s saying everyone should measure it in exactly four different ways, all of the time, everywhere.
Well, insofar as he’s coherently saying anything, that is.
A long time ago I had an email exchange with Gene Ray over a similar topic. I had also argued that his selection of four was arbitrary and that one could add any arbitrary number of meridians and define days. Thus, using his logic, there was actually an infinite number of days in a day. I don’t remember what his response was specifically, but I think it was just that I’d been educated stupid and deceived by the one-day thing or whatever. I did at least get him to take his obnoxious proof that pi wasn’t pi where all he was really doing was using the value of pi/4 and then multiplying by pi and 4 to magically get the same answer. Really, I think it all just comes back to him have some kind of numerological obsession with the number 4.
