That’s right, Dr. Gene Ray will be appearing at Georgia Tech tonight, to give a lecture on Time Cube. Unfortunately, I have a previous engagement, and will be unable to attend. However, if you’re in the area, you can stop by, disprove it, and win $10,000! (Open to ‘Evil Bastards’ only).
After reading the flyer… is this a joke? I still can’t figure out what the Time Cube is. 4 simultaneous 24 hour days in the space of one day? And www.timecube.com didn’t go anywhere. Am I being whooshed?
Okay, crap, now it does go somewhere. Maybe he is right. Maybe I have been educated stupid. This reminds me of ninjas somehow. This part kind of worries me too:
I have no doubt this will be hilarious, but isn’t it just a bit cruel? The man is obviously not right in the head. It amounts to holding him up to ridicule for something that may not even be his fault.
I go back and forth between “This is comedy gold” and “Aww, that’s a shame”. It’s a dilemma.
I’m having a hard time imagining what it would be like. I love Time Cube; it’s like blank verse. Does he really talk like that? Is he going to be able to make a coherent presentation?
Will there be a PowerPoint? A slideshow? Will he just speak from a podium?
Damnit, Lambo, you must ditch your previous engagement! This is for science!
Insofar as it might be trying to make sense, the time cube thing appears to focus around the idea that at any one moment, part of the earth is experiencing dawn, another part midday, another part sunset and another part midnight; four ‘days’ in one rotation.
Trouble is that you could pick any arbitrary interval:- at any one moment, part of the earth is experiencing ten o’clock, part is experiencing *eleven o’clock’ and so on - 24 ‘days’ in one rotation.
And so you see I’ve already fallen into the trap of trying to figure it out and by trying to figure it out, lent it more respect than it deserves. If Gene Ray weren’t an old codger, I’d be tempted to think it was all just a student joke, but maybe he really is bonkers.
Rest assured, we cannot fully understand the Time Cube.
What is the Time Cube?
Blue pill or red pill…
Damn it! I wished I lived somewhere near Georgia so I could go! Although the site says a DVD will be made, so I’ll email the guy about buying one.
My favorite quote from TimeCube:
A few people on a mailing list to which I subscribe are planning on going, and if they do, they promise to do a write-up of it. If anyone does, I’ll get permission from them to reproduce it, and let you all in on the secrets of TIME CUBE.
I almost fell on my ass laughing, as I’m walking back to my office after lunch, a big projection display that shows upcoming events in the College of Computing had, right in the center, “The Mother of All Lectures: Dr. Gene Ray”.