# Science-type event of the year: Time Cube @ Georgia Tech **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 14, 2005, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-type-event-of-the-year-time-cube-georgia-tech/299269 "2005-04-14T12:42:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lambo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lambo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lambo)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-type-event-of-the-year-time-cube-georgia-tech/299269/1 "2005-04-14T12:42:20Z")
That’s right, Dr. Gene Ray will be appearing at Georgia Tech tonight, to give a lecture on [Time Cube.](http://timecube.shim.net/) 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). ---
**Author:** ![audiobottle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@audiobottle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audiobottle)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-type-event-of-the-year-time-cube-georgia-tech/299269/2 "2005-04-14T12:55:49Z")
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](http://www.timecube.com) didn’t go anywhere. Am I being whooshed? ---
**Author:** ![audiobottle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@audiobottle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audiobottle)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-type-event-of-the-year-time-cube-georgia-tech/299269/3 "2005-04-14T12:59:16Z")
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: > [@From the timecube homepage](#): > > My Cubic Wisdom debunks 1 sex gods. > The male god singularity and same sex > trinity equates denouncing motherhood > and supporting a state of queers - with > a price of HIV devastating life on Earth. ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-type-event-of-the-year-time-cube-georgia-tech/299269/4 "2005-04-14T13:09:33Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-type-event-of-the-year-time-cube-georgia-tech/299269/5 "2005-04-14T14:32:10Z")
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_! ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-type-event-of-the-year-time-cube-georgia-tech/299269/6 "2005-04-14T14:50:30Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-type-event-of-the-year-time-cube-georgia-tech/299269/7 "2005-04-14T18:51:06Z")
Rest assured, we cannot fully understand the Time Cube. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-type-event-of-the-year-time-cube-georgia-tech/299269/8 "2005-04-14T19:01:50Z")
What is the Time Cube? Blue pill or red pill… ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-type-event-of-the-year-time-cube-georgia-tech/299269/9 "2005-04-14T19:12:24Z")
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: > [@](#): > > Hey stupid - are you too > dumb to know there are > 4 different simultaneous > 24 hour days within a > single rotation of Earth? ---
**Author:** ![Lambo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lambo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lambo)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/science-type-event-of-the-year-time-cube-georgia-tech/299269/10 "2005-04-14T20:29:55Z")
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”.