You know how we developed a spacecraft to go to the Moon? And Mars? And spacecraft capable of reentry? And large communications constellation satellites? Remember how we called them all the same thing, Photon? Yeah, we fixed that.
Indeed it is! It's a quanta of electromagnetic energy without a rest mass, which propagates through the medium of space as a wave. Its fields affect such a large region of space, that they confuse people greatly, and cause them to think time is wibbly wobbly when it is not. Photon wavicles interact with space and matter in strange ways that we do not yet fully understand - but there are no paradoxes and there is no time travel - that's for sure. And we can now say with some level of accuracy that light speed is measured against space itself, and that space flows with gravity, and it is space which drags on matter, and not gravity itself. Space is not only infinitely expandable, it is also infinitely compressible. On top of this, we can say with accuracy that there IS an absolute time, and there is no missing time in the so-called Twins Paradox. And that all this stems from a fundamental error made by Einstein: his conflation of clocks with time. Clocks do not measure time, and they are not time. Clocks measure vibrations or oscillations of things. These slow down as relativistic mass is gained as velocity increases, and that is why clocks run slower at velocity. It's also why biological processes slow down. But time keeps ticking at the same rate it always does, in all locations, simultaneously. The River Model of General Relativity solves Einstein's Equivalence Principle, and every other difficulty physics has struggled with for over 100 years now. The big questions are now "What IS space?", "What properties must it have?", and "Can the flow of space be influenced?"
@@onjofilms You'd be wrong then. It is the fabric of space itself which can't support any movement through it, faster than C. In exactly the same way you can't make a wave travel faster than a certain speed in water. ** In deep water a wave moves with velocity √gL/2π where g is the surface gravity and L the wavelength. Long wavelength waves such as tsunamis can move at 800 km/h, or 15% of the sound speed in seawater.
I met one of your staff at LTSA , we both in queue , I’m disabled and was struggling with writing , your staff member helped me , what an absolutely lovely guy , he was a satellite tech from USA . Please if you know who I’m talking about pass my thanks
I don't know what you were paying your branding expert, but it was enough. In all seriousness, clarity is good, helps immensely when communicating about the cool things you do.
All the name ideas are great Photon ,we love the nightlife,one closer Inspection just great allways funny seeing on a Rocketlaunch app when Electron launches😂
Peter B. truly is the mutts nuts; the best space company CEO (along with Tory Bruno, of course). The technology, imagination and vision are out of this world - but the self-deprecating videos are quite priceless. Well done again, Rocket Labradors..
Explorer class is my favourite, with ESCAPADE launching later this year and that proposed Venus mission. Could open the flood gates for more frequent, cheaper interplanetary science missions.
I love seeing Peter in these videos - speaking as a kiwi, it's great to see "kiwi-isms" in the marketing material, and as others pointed out his not being afraid of a little self deprecation is great
What is this strange feeling welling up inside me? Could it possibly be, "Pride at being a Kiwi"? Yeah - Nah - Yeah - it probably is. Gudonya, Pete - keep it up, mate.
Awww... Missed opportunity 😢 you totally could have done the color palette with the orbital energy states. Red for LEO, Orange for MEO, Yellow for GEO, Green for Lunar, Blue for Helio orbits, and Violet for interstellar
Seems they are using more names now in fear of having a rocket component feel left out. RKLB should be in the next investment video on my RU-vid channel.
This might be a dumb idea. But have you talked to other satellite companies to make a photon kickstage that can be swapped in space? For when a satellite is running out of propellant you can launch another kick stage, fly it to the satellite, eject the old one and this one slots in?
And the one going to Venus......? My vote is for Kākāpō, or Hillary (after the great Sir Edmund). Anything except Wētā; they give me the heebie jeebies.
