Time Lords Up a Gum Tree is Ush Light's bold, kaleidoscopic and relentlessly incisive work which effectively illuminates the essence of an admittedly complex subject, rendering it comprehensible to the general reader. Its most central feature is the subject of time travel which is inextricably linked to the 'Big Bang' and 'Free Will' theories. Mrs Light is in many ways a 'laughing philosopher' who employs reason to demonstrate latnet inadequacies in current scientific thinking. Even those who disagree with the views in this book will find it stimulating and absorbing. An excellent expose of the dangers inherent in all speculative theorizing. - Back cover
"Ush Light is so disgusted with modern physics, she uses words like "tunneling" and "parallel universes" as epithets. Like many others, she believes that nature and objective, logical thinking should have more clout than mathematical renormalizations in attempts to reconcile quantum mechanics and relativity theory. She is fed up with the patchwork, excuses and cop-outs that masquerade as science. Justifiably, she blames the arcane mysticism that enshrouds popular science - yet explains nothing - for the exodus from rational thought described in John Horgan's The End of Science.
"The title of her book, Time Lords up a Gum Tree, is a reference to a television program in which several scientists, billed as "Time Lords," rationalized all sorts of impossibilities in the name of physics. She argues that accepted theoretical concepts, such as strings, time travel, and the Big Bang, have rendered science and logic no longer compatible. The institutionalization of false premises and contradiction has allowed "proponents of the baffling theories [to] indulge in the wildest flights of fancy," while the common man, as well as the highly-educated natural philosopher, is left with a worldview beyond his grasp..." - Leslee A. Kulba, Electric Spacecraft Journal, V30, p. 21 (Mar 2000).
