Question,
Does E=MC2? are you sure Einstein?
True or False,
III. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Is that so Newton?

From my youth I was told to believe nothing that I hear and only half of what I see.

Read this two part article
By Richard C. Hoagland about "Von Braun's 50 Year old secret:

Von Braun P1


Von Braun P2

So, you don't believe Einstein or Newton, or the hundreds of thousands of experiments by highly educated investigators that have verified their predictions over and over again to fantastic levels of precision over hundreds of years, but you totally swallow the rantings of some loon on the Internet peddling a tawdry piece of badly-written fiction.

Uh, huh.

I not once disparaged any "highly educated investigators" nor expounded that I whole heartily believe this article. I simply found it to be thought provoking at the very least. One thing that peeked my interest, and compelled me to post links to the article was the spinning ball experiment, and to solicit derisive remarks from arrogant scholars but I won't point fingers.

So you've admitted you're a troll.

Thanks for getting that rather obvious bit of information out of the way.

Some of you have already heard this, but I have a personal insight into James Van Allen. He was my Physics professor, my academic adviser for a couple of years, a family friend-mostly through his brother Maurice- since childhood, and a life long resident of the town where I live up until he died just about 2 years ago. I spent several hours sitting in his office talking to him about the Explorer Missions and we have a couple locally produced documentaries discussing this mission, and the story is always the same: The Rocket just did better than they thought. The guy is full of it.

It was not at all out of line to find that the first rocket (for the U.S.) to put an object in orbit would work either slightly better or worse than expected.