Original sentence: Dr Ray claims that π=3.20 exactly.He has challenged universities, academics, students and the media to debate the subject, though  most reject Time Cube, for reasons such as considering it to be nonsense or to lack testable hypotheses.It uses a distinctive combination of simple drawings, colorful large-font text, obscure statements and unconventional grammar, and has been widely parodied.Some of the writing serves as an explanation of the Time Cube itself, while other parts expound upon the social ramifications of the theory, and describe people who oppose or fail to understand Cubic principles as being "stupid and evil".Some people may have viewed Time Cube as being cranky or absurd.Some people may view it as "ill-defined".The Time Cube theory is the proposition that time is cubic, a cryptic concept which is a frequent target of Internet humor.The theory has only received scant publication in Academic peer-reviewed journals.The website began to gain notoriety in 1997.Time Cube is a theory that is sometimes viewed as philosophical or scientific, and also it is the name of a website (TimeCube.com) which supports that theory as a theory of everything
Edited sentence: Ray has challenged various authorities to debate the subject, but these challenges are generally ignored or rejected.The Time Cube theory itself is the proposition that time is cubic, a cryptic and ill-defined concept which is a frequent target of Internet humor.The theory has not been published in any peer-reviewed journal and is generally considered nonsense and lacking testable hypotheses.The theory itself is patently absurd, claiming among other things that π=3.20 exactly and describing people who oppose or fail to understand the theory as "stupid and evil".Time Cube is a website promoting a purported theory of everything which began to gain notoriety in 1997