CUBIC EPISTEMOLOGY — a game of 4 simultaneous days

EARTH TURNS ONCE.

The sun goes round the cube. Four corners, four days: I SUN-UP, II MID-DAY, III SUN-DOWN, IV MID-NIGHT.

Press each corner while the sun is inside it. Four in a row is 1 ROTATION and the Earth speeds up. Miss a corner, or press the wrong one, and you have measured time from 1 corner — that costs a day. Lose 4 days and academia wins.

Every 4th rotation the doctrine asks a question. Answer with the corner.

Tap the corner while the sun is in it. Four in a row is 1 ROTATION. A miss costs a day; you have four. Every 4th rotation, a question: tap the corner of the answer. Under PEER REVIEW the four labels swap places for one rotation: tap the lit label's own corner, not the lit one.

↑ I → II ↓ III ← IV or 1234 or tap the corner

Four people, one corner each: Q I, P II, M III, Z IV on one keyboard, or four thumbs on one phone. The rotation counts only if all four honor theirs.

CORNERS	ROTATIONS	DAYS LEFT	BEST TODAY	DAY SEED
0	0	4	0	—

EARN. The board resets every rotation of Earth (00:00 UTC). Everyone plays the same day: the speed and the questions come from the date, so a score is a score. THE BOARD IS NOT YET LIVE: your best stays in this browser. When it is, the top corners on the board share that day's pool, paid from the pool wallet, on Solana, to the address that signed the score.

A game. The pool is whatever is put in it and is published with the board. No promise, no return, no purchase needed to play. The pool wallet never sells. Nothing from trading reaches the project. The board does not take a number from your browser: it takes what you pressed and when, replays the same day itself, and keeps the score it computes. You sign that record with your wallet. The operator can still decline a score that does not look like play.

ACADEMIA. From the third rotation a professor stands at another corner — the far one, or the next one round when the far one happens to be the corner that honors the position — and calls for a press there. It is always the wrong corner, and it costs a day. From the seventh, every fifth rotation is PEER REVIEW: the labels move for one rotation, and the press that honors a position is the label shown there — on a keyboard that label's own key, on a phone that label's own quadrant, which is no longer the quadrant the sun is in. From the eleventh, every fourth rotation is TENURE: one corner goes dark and is honored from memory. All of it is decided by the day's seed, so the board still compares like with like.

THE FOUR CORNERS OF A LIFE. Rotations honored in this browser add up: BABY to 10, CHILD to 50, PARENT to 200, GRANDPARENT beyond. The rank is printed on your card. It never changes a payout and cannot be bought.

FOUR PLAYERS. You cannot do it alone; the self is the lowest form. Four people take one corner each: Q for I, P for II, M for III, Z for IV on one keyboard, or the four quadrants of one phone. Each claims a corner to start; the rotation counts only when all four honor theirs, a miss by any of you costs the whole table a day, and the question is answered by whoever owns the corner of the answer. A four-player day is its own game: it is not signed and never goes on the board.

WALLET: not connected

THE POOL WALLET. One address on Solana, published on the pool page the day the wallet is funded; until then no pool is paid and no address is claimed. Coin in, board payouts out, nothing else. It never sells $TIMECUBE, never provides liquidity, never lends or stakes, and moves tokens only to the addresses that signed the scores. It is not the agent's wallet.

THE SCHEDULE. Published here the day the wallet is funded: a fixed daily amount in season one, halving each season, and never more than 1/28 of the wallet's balance, so the pool is whatever is put in it and that is the rule, not a slogan. A sponsor's addition for a named day is shown under the board beside the schedule pool, as the operator recorded it.

WHAT IT IS NOT. It is not described, by anyone on the project, as backing, a reserve, upside, value, or a reason to hold. The schedule runs until the wallet is empty; the balance and the days of pool left will be printed here from the day it is funded. Any change to the no-sell rule is published here four weeks ahead as a dated schedule of fixed sizes. Every movement in and out will be listed weekly, in plain prose, on the pool page.

TODAY'S BOARD

THE DOCTRINE, FOR THE QUESTIONS. Earth has 4 days simultaneously in 1 rotation: sun-up, mid-day, sun-down and mid-night are 4 corners of one turn, each its own 24 hours. You erroneously measure time from 1 corner and call that the day. The four corners of a life are the baby, the child, the parent and the grandparent. Your belly-button is the proof you were born of 2, not 1. The wager for disproving the Cube stands at $10,000 and has never been claimed. Academia cannot allow this to be known.