A Dialectic of Modern Rocket Science.

A Systematic Dialectic of Modern Rocket Science.

Dear Readers,

No doubt without intending to do so in the least, the latest episode of the PBS series “Breakthrough”, in episode 5 of that series, entitled “The Rocket”, stated -- in terms of our ‘Unified Theory of Universal Dialectics’ -- the systematic-dialectical, ‘‘‘horizontal- dialectical’’’, «aufheben» ‘meta-unit-ization’ dialectic that resides at the core of the orbital and inter-planetary success, to-date, of the modern-epoch’s “chemical” rocketry.

The episode narrator notes, starting at time-index ~ 0:37:49, Tsiolkovsky’s key idea that “...a rocket can be made up out of several rockets all strapped together...”. 

One of the episode’s main interviewees later states, at time-index ~ 0:43:16, that “This concept, of dropping your outer boosters or the first stage, is the essential solution for any chemical rocket to be able to reach orbit.” 

It is further noted that, without this “multi-stage rocket” solution, it would take a “single-stage” chemical rocket ‘‘‘the size of the Empire State Building’’’ to house sufficient molecular-power fuel to reach escape velocity if carrying payload masses of adequate magnitude.

We note, in the ‘dialectogram’ above, that each “multi-stage rocket” unit is, precisely, none other than an ‘«aufheben»-ation’ of a mere rocket unit -- a ‘meta¹-rocket meta¹-unit’, made up out of a, typically, heterogeneous multiplicity of at least two mere rocket units, or “stages” [i.e., of at least two meta⁰-rocket units] as its sub-units.

Again, we call your attention to the observation that truly universal principles -- such as the universal principle of the ‘negation-elevation-conservation’ dialectic, i.e., of the «aufheben»-ation’ dialectic, of what we call ‘meta-unit-ization’ -- may be so general as to be difficult to discern, so that they may go unnoticed in their full universality for long stretches of human history.

For more information regarding these Seldonian insights into dialectics, please see --

www.dialectics.org

and

www.dialectics.info

For ‘poster-ized’ visualizations of many of these Seldonian insights -- specimens of ‘dialectical art’ -- see:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/DialecticsMATH?ref=search_shop_redirect

¡ENJOY!

Regards,

Miguel Detonacciones,

Member, Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.],

Participant, F.E.D. Special Council for Public Liaison,

Officer, F.E.D. Office of Public Liaison.