Person Of The Week: Robert Bartini

Robert Ludvigovich Bartini was an Italian born Russian aircraft designer and scientist. Bartini joined the Italian Communist Party in 1921 and fled the country after the Fascist takeover in 1923. Bartini was secretly transferred to USSR as an aviation engineer where he worked on experimental designs.

Apart from being an exceptional scientist and engineer, Bartini was a philosopher who theorized the existence of a six dimensional world, in fact, this theory became known as “Bartini’s World”.

Bartini theorized that time, just like space, has three dimensions. We can safely assume that the linear movement through time is no longer a singular vector. Movement through time and space takes on the same characteristics. Just as we would move backward or forward in space, so we can move forward and backward in time.