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Message: <blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 976682" data-attributes="member: 6929">8 vertices, 12 edges, 6 faces, one volume, nowhere is there a 4 in a cube. I think that he might be talking about a spherical intersection pattern at one point, which needs explaining without constant reference to how the reader is an evil mule that can't talk:Greenwich Meridian. Goes around the world from pole to pole intersecting Greenwich on one side and some small village in Siberia on the other. It also intersects the Equator. Now, if you consider that these circles are described by planes bisecting the sphere of the Earth, you'll see that they're at right angles. But you can put one more plane in there at right angles to both the Greenwich and the Equatorial planes; we'll call it the Bangladesh/Guatemala Meridian, because those two countries are both neatly intersected by it.Now that has four points on the equator, but it's not a cube. In fact, the lines intersect 6 times (four times on the equator, once at each pole) and describe eight 'quadrants' (four in each hemisphere), but if you make each of those vertices a face on a cube like some Bizzarro World ripoff, you've still got two faces (North and South Poles). Perhaps the Arctic is just a misled evil equine, so it doesn't count.Aha! I've proved the Time Cube! Now I'm off to saddle up Antarctica. It may be an evil dumbass, but I'm sure I can break the will of a mere continent.</blockquote>