Gene Ray

Gene Ray
Alias(es)	Mr. Marbles
Born	Otis Eugene Ray 2 July 1927(1927-07-02)  Wetumpka, Elmore Co., Alabama
Died	18 March 2015 (87)
Burial	Cains Chapel Methodist Church Cemetery, Holtville, Alabama
Nationality	American
Affiliations	World Professional Marbles Players Association
Known for	TIMECUBE (Nature's Harmonic Simultaneous 4-Day Time Cube)
Timecube.com

Otis Eugene "Gene" Ray (July 2, 1927 - March 18, 2015) was an American inventor and author who was noted for his Time Cube hypothesis and his contentiousness in its promotion, being earlier in his life known for his long promotion of professional marbles.

Selected Bibliography

• Ray, Gene (1979). Mr. Marbles' Marbles for Everyone. St. Petersburg, Fla.: Knuckle Pool Co. 

Gene Ray's Web Tetralogy

• TimeCube.com (offline, via archive.org)
• AboveGod.com (offline, via archive.org)
• TheGreatestThinker.com (offline, via archive.org)
• TheWisestHuman.com (offline, via archive.org)

Other Media

• @wisest_human on Twitter (last active 22 Mar 2010)

Patents

• US 4095793, Ray, Otis Eugene, "Marble game resembling golf", published 4 Apr. 1977, issued 20 Jun. 1978 . "A simplified and inexpensive table game resembling golf is played with marbles propelled by the fingers of players on an imitation grass playing surface. The playing surface has cut-outs to resemble sand and water hazards as well as the holes of a golf course. A plastic or oil cloth underlay is colored to be visible through the cut-outs so that the sand and water hazards will appear realistically to the players of the game. Simplified hole marker flags are constructed from bent pipe cleaners."
• US 4095365, Ray, Otis Eugene, "Bait bucket", published 19 Jan. 1977, issued 20 Jun. 1978 
• US 3974591, Ray, Otis Eugene, "Chum dispensing attachment for fishing rigs", published 4 Aug. 1975, issued 17 Aug. 1976 

Press Coverage

Mr. Marbles (1970s-80s)

• Abrams, Rick (7 Jul. 1977), "He's gonna get marbles rollin' again", Tampa Bay Times (St. Petersburg, FL): 1-D, 2-D, https://www.newspapers.com/clip/123444353/hes-gonna-get-marbles-rollin-again/ 
• Hill, Judy (8 Mar. 1979), "Rolling back time: A marbles tourney", Tampa Bay Times (St. Petersburg, FL): 1-B, https://www.newspapers.com/clip/123445930/rolling-back-time-a-marbles-tourney/ 
• Klinkenberg, Jeff (7 Oct. 1984), "Mr. Marbles: Gene Ray has his eye on making marbles are professional sport", Tampa Bay Times (St. Petersburg, FL): 1-F, 2-F, https://www.newspapers.com/clip/123444031/mr-marbles-gene-ray-has-his-eye-on-mak/ 
• Koff, Stephen (14 Mar. 1987), "'Mr. Marbles' isn't playing a game anymore", Tampa Bay Times (St. Petersburg, FL), https://www.newspapers.com/clip/123445639/mr-marbles-isnt-playing-a-game/ 

Harmonic Cube (1990s)

• Steinle, Diane (29 May 1995), "Dear readers, now it's time for a letter from the editor", Tampa Bay Times (St. Petersburg, FL), https://www.newspapers.com/clip/123447585/dear-readers-now-its-time-for-a/ 
  

  I received a fascinating little booklet after writing a column about the teaching of evolution in schools. The obviously home-assembled booklet began with a cover page that stated in big black letters, "Inferior People Are Ignorant of Harmonic Cube." Each page had a similar declaration. "A 24 Hr. Rotating Earth Has 4 Days Simutaneously (sic)." "One 24 Hr. Day is a Measure of Satanism." "The Academia-Created 1 Day Greenwich Time is Bastardly Queer and Dooms Future Youth and Nature To A Hell."

• Eastman, Susan (22 Jun. 1997), "Protester plans to risk jail by illegally feeding birds", Tampa Bay Times (St. Petersburg, FL), https://www.newspapers.com/clip/123445856/protester-plans-to-risk-jail-by/ 

Reading

• Duffy, Kate (19 Sep. 2002), "Truth is Cubic?", The Phoenix (Philadelphia: Swarthmore College), http://web.archive.org/web/20021220092124/http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/org/phoenix/2002/2002-09-19/living/12178.php  [interview with Gene Ray on TimeCube]