Category:
Journal Reprints
Sub-Category:
Mechanics / Electrodynamics
Date Published:
March 2007
Keywords:
Ritz, BTR, Ritz effect, Galileo, MMX, gamma-radiation pulses, Tsiolkovsky, positron, annihilation, pi-meson decay, Superluminal velocities, Fox, Pauli, Fresnel drag coefficient, Doppler effect, Big Bang, Barr effect
Filename:
Semikov_EngineerJ[trans]_n3(2007)1-14.pdf
Publication:
Engineer Journal
Comments:
Translated to English with Google Translate by Thomas E. Miles
Abstract:
A person who paved the way into space could not have a limited mind, but he would certainly have a bold thought and indomitable imagination. Such was Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, who anticipated the development of cosmonautics not even for decades, but for centuries. But even this brave thinker considered the theory of relativity risky and unfounded, reproaching Einstein for unscientific idealism. Indeed, even in his most fantastic projects for those times, Tsiolkovsky always relied on experience, observations and calculations [1], while Einstein's abstract constructions were based only on his speculative postulates, of which the second has not yet been proven. It is not the postulates themselves that have been tested empirically, but only their consequences, which are easy to obtain, say, in the Ritz Ballistic Theory (BTR).
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