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"About three hundred thousand light years distant, I should guess," said Morey. "We know our velocity fairly accurately," said Wade. "Why can't we calculate the distance between two of these stars and then go on in?" "Good idea," agreed Arcot. "Take the angle, will you, Morey? I'll swing the ship." After taking their measurements, they advanced for one hour.
Continuing its course and enlarging its sphere day after day, the sight presented to us would have been that of a gradually expanding nebulous mass a globe of faint light continually increasing in size with the velocity of light. The first sentiment the reader will feel on this subject is doubtless one of surprise that the distance of the star should be so great as this explanation would imply.
Its velocity was three miles an hour, and it increased as we approached the meridian of Testigos, a heap of rocks which rises up amidst the waters. At the setting of the moon, the sky was covered with clouds, the wind freshened anew, and the rain descended in one of those torrents peculiar to the torrid zone.
But when she hit the outer fringes of the ionosphere that upper layer of rarified protons, the rapidly moving current of high velocity ions known as the plasmasphere she bucked like a kicked horse.
"I should think it did," answered Nicholl, consulting his chronometer; "it is eleven o'clock, only thirteen minutes since we left the American continent." "Only thirteen minutes?" said Barbicane. "That is all," answered Nicholl; "and if our initial velocity were constant we should make nearly 10,000 leagues an hour."
Why limit oneself to a mere million of years for a dramatic illustration, when there is a star in space distant so far from us that if a telegram left the earth for it this very night, and maintained for ever its initial velocity, it would never reach that star?"
Rising up, and swooping down, and whirling around, and coursing straight, and proceeding gently, and advancing steadily, and performing the diverse courses up and receding back, and soaring high, and darting forward and soaring upwards with fiercer velocity, and once more proceeding gently and then proceeding with great impetuosity, and once again swooping down and whirling around and advancing steadily, and rising up by the jerks, and soaring straight, and once more falling down and wheeling in a circle and rushing proudly, and diverse other kinds of motion, these all I shall display in the sight of all you.
Of the particles which vibrate with any particular velocity, some are gathered by the optical apparatus of the eye, and deflected so as to impinge on the retina and on the fibres of the optic nerve therewith connected, producing in these fibres a change which is followed by other changes in the brain, which, again, by virtue of some inscrutable union between the brain and the mind, create a feeling or consciousness of colour.
His idea was, that by giving a certain velocity of revolution to a series of lenses round a fixed light, as in Fresnel’s arrangement, a continuity of illuminative power, equal almost in brilliancy to that of a slowly revolving light, might be produced.
The shock produced by a pointed projectile is nothing compared to that of the old belted ball, unless it is on the principle of Purday's high velocity expanding bullet, which, although perfection for deer-shooting, would be useless against thick-skinned animals, such as buffalo and rhinoceros.
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