THE ETHER OF SPACE To prove this let us attend to what is happening at the target. The first shot is supposed to be entering at A, and if the target is stationary will leave it at Y. A marker looking along Y A will see the position whence the shot was fired. This may be likened to a stationary observer looking atamoving star. He sees it where and asit was when the light started on its long journey. He cre cheat Fic. 1.—Shots or Disturbances with Momentum from a Moving Gun. does not see its present position, but there is no reason why he should. He does not see its physical state or anything asitisnow. He sees it as it was when it sent the information which he has just received. There is no aberration caused by motion of source. But now let the receiver be moving at same pace as the gun, as when two grappled ships are firing into each other. The motion of the target carries the point Y forward, and the shot A leaves it at Z, because Z is carried to where Y was. So in that case the marker looking along 36