The best way to actually describe how a real rocket would work using a people analogy is to look at this depiction of people rising and think of it as fuel mass acting on atmosphere and how a big compression is achieved to keep a movement vertically.
Now that the vid is there (It wasn't showing before) I can comment.
This doesn't act anything like a rocket.
Notice how the people just climb?
Notice how they aren't throwing things down at high velocity?
So no, that video wont help people understand rockets at all.
And this is why you and other never seem to grasp very much of what I say. You're all too fired up ready to dismiss stuff to understand what resistance means in how it works.
No, this is why I wont just accept what you say. I actually think about it and compare it to my experiences and realise it is BS.
When exposed as such, rather than attempt a rational explanation at why this is false, you instead just insult people.
In your fantasy, resistance is that whatever is coming out in a high velocity stream needs to meet resistance to motion, and that the magnitude of this resistance determines the thrust.
A solid wall provides more resistance than the air, so it should be more thrust, but it isn't.
Again, all the evidence and rational thought shows you are wrong.
If the rocket (or the like) needed the resistance of the atmosphere to push off, a solid object would provide more thrust, but it does not.
It would also mean that the thinning atmosphere would reduce the thrust produced, but also reduce the thrust needed to accelerate/move the rocket, meaning the rocket still accelerates.
If the atmosphere is the only thing which causes resistance to motion, then:
in space there would be nothing to resist the motion of a rocket or prevent it accelerating, so it should work just fine (although there would be questions of control).
in the atmosphere if you threw an object, as the force was no longer applied it would stop dead as it no longer has the force required to move through the atmosphere (This is also what you claim happens, but only in one case of your magically selective physics).
The latter shows that the atmosphere resisting the motion is not the primary cause of the actual resistance, as objects continually move. This shows that objects have a property based upon their speed and mass (you can even pretend it is your magic
volume instead), perhaps we can call it momentum, which resists motion. When you initially try to accelerate an object, the majority of the force will typically go into the momentum, with only a small amount going directly to pushing the atmosphere away.
This momentum is then lost as it moves through the atmosphere with the atmosphere resisting its motion.
It is also apparent that this can work to speed up the object such as through wind, with no preference for any action with the object being thrown into stationary air or pushed into by the wind when starting out stationary. This shows that gaining and losing momentum function the same.
Based upon this fact, the main resistance from the rocket exhaust (or burning thrust as you want to call it) will be due to accelerating it. That will require an equal and opposite reaction to the rocket, accelerating the rocket.
This means no air is required for the motion.