Timecube

posted on January 6th, 2012, 7:37 pm

Man, you guys missed that he's also racist!

posted on January 6th, 2012, 8:46 pm

Time Cubicle



if this guy isn't insane then he might be one of the first internet trolls, and what a successful one, still getting threads after all these years.

posted on January 6th, 2012, 9:29 pm

It's a great conversation piece.

posted on January 6th, 2012, 10:06 pm

I got a bad headache after reading the 4th line...that background is just killing me!

posted on January 6th, 2012, 10:56 pm

I got a bad headache after reading the 4th line...that background is just killing me!

Killing a fleetops.net-moderator is a class-2-offense. 

posted on January 7th, 2012, 5:06 am

I got a bad headache after reading the 4th line...that background is just killing me!

THIS MEANS WAR! (To be read in the voice of Groucho Marx)

posted on January 7th, 2012, 1:46 pm

and metaphysics have been confronted by the fact that GMT is 'wrong and evil'. Yes, a human defined arbitrary measure of time is evil. Of course, that makes perfect sense and shall revolutionise western philosophy. Everybody, come see the next Socrates! 

While i don't agree with his position, it is interesting in showing how fear or standardization and order has influenced human society over the years.

With the introduction of the Gregorian Calendar and Daylight Saving time there were riots because people thought days/time was stolen from them.

At the end of the 19th century an anarchist planted a bomb in the chronometer in Greenwich where a few years earlier the GMT was established.

And examples can be given to this very date where fear influences people and societies. From a scientific point of view this whole "time cube" is pure nonsense, but from a sociological point of view its interesting.

posted on January 7th, 2012, 2:14 pm

THIS MEANS WAR! (To be read in the voice of Groucho Marx)

Killing a fleetops.net-moderator is a class-2-offense. 

  All hands on battle stations! I qickly join Tunngle to solve that issue... 

posted on January 7th, 2012, 11:13 pm

Wait a minute, didn't the Borg attack earth with a timecube is First Contact?

posted on January 11th, 2012, 9:18 pm

No, they attacke with the child theory, a timesphere.

posted on January 12th, 2012, 4:26 am

Actually... there's some interesting, if not flawed, logic at work here.

If I understand him correctly, he's basically saying at any one time, the Earth exists in 2 additional dimensions. This translates to a 3 dimensional, spherical earth being reduced to a 1 dimensional vector on 4 faces of a 3 dimensional cube (or, more appropriately, the 4 sides of a 2 dimensional square).

For an interesting illustration of what "10 Dimensions" are to us 3 dimensional beings, see THIS YouTube video. It's an old video I remember seeing in the '90's, I think, but was rather enlightening at the time.

However, back to Mr. Time Cube - why there are only 4 Earths and not 6 (to cover each "face" of this multi-dimensional "time cube") or even 3 (to lie along each axis) is beyond my comprehension. It might be more correct to say there are 4 Earths on 4 sides of a "Time Square". But, if you subscribe to the multi-verse concept, there are infinite dimensions in which to exist and this whole discussion is made even more irrelevant.

Of course, all of this neglects the fact that with the 3 dimensional earth reduced to a 1 dimensional vector, so reduces everything else in Earth's 3 dimensional universe, including the sun. You can't just turn the Earth into a point without doing it to the rest of the universe that it inhabits. It's like saying:  z (2 + 3) = 2z + 3, which is, of course, not true. So he's mistaken in his assertion that the 4 (6?) (3?) Earth's would still rotate around 1 sun. Each Earth in each of the 4 (6?) (3?) universes would still have it's own sun.

In reality, he's not saying anything insane. He's just mistakenly progressing through the various dimensions (again, I insist you watch the YouTube video. It's much better at establishing harmony with each additional dimension).

What makes him insane is his inability to recognize the mistake and correct his theory (or refute it) in light of new evidence. Granted, his belief that Earth (or any dipolar object for that matter) can't exist because it has a negative and positive pole (and thus, by his logic, a "net 0" existence) doesn't exactly show a stable mind. Combined with the incoherent ranting, self-reenforced paranoia and his likely self-exile from civilized life shows a man who shouldn't be mocked on television, but helped, even if we have to endure lectures on "Time Cube".

The man is very sick and I hope he recieved PROPER attention.

posted on January 15th, 2012, 8:01 am

Actually, his logic is based on racial segregation: each 'day' (he really means 'hemisphere') corresponds to a specific race that is supposed to live in their own 'day' and apart from others. If I recall, those 'races' are white, black, asian and indian. Way back in '08, he went on a rant about a black man being the leader of a county in the white 'day' and how Barack Obama had doomed us all, yadda yadda.