To some, it is a place where reports are generated and available for pickup. To others, it is a climate-controlled environment where computer equipment is housed. But to those whose stories are often heard but seldom believed, it is a terrifying realm of bytes and switches, an underworld of electrifying yet microscopic proportions. Following are a few rumors and conspiracy theories surrounding the BITcave that have never been able to be substantiated. Most believe that the highly secretive world of the BITcave can never be fully known.
Theorists cite erratic elevator function and a sense of vertigo.
When taking the east staircase down to the BITcave, the slamming gate serves as a warning to occupants of the BITcave to revert to roles prescribed by university standard and respective job descriptions. There is no basement access on the Glassell side of Beckman Hall, and on the bell tower end of the building, there is no roof access, creating an assymetrical imbalance that generates electron flow to the BITcave. Some have speculated that perpetual energy experiments could succeed in this environment and point out the fact that BITcave dwellers seem unflappable and indefatigable. There are no bells in the Beckman Hall tower and yet chimes ring out a punctual portent that something is amiss.