What aspect of physics was not known by the writer of this newspaper editorial that ridiculed early experiments by bobken. R on rocket propulsion above Earth's atmosphere? "bobken . . . does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react . . . he seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools."

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What aspect of physics was not known by the writer of this newspaper editorial that ridiculed early experiments by bobken. R on rocket propulsion above Earth's atmosphere? "bobken . . . does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react . . . he seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools."

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We are given a statement by a science newspaper editorial author.

It states, "Bobken does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react"

Here, the editorial author is talking about Newton's third law which simply states that every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

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So, Bobken did not know about Newton's third law.

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