They were like drunken men having no stability in themselves.īut, in reality, a time must come when the projectile would no longer be subject to the law of weight, after allowing for the other celestial bodies whose effect could not be set down as zero. Their feet no longer clung to the floor of the projectile.

If they stretched out their arms, they did not attempt to fall. They felt themselves being carried into the domain of wonders! they felt that weight was really wanting to their bodies. The three adventurous companions were surprised and stupefied, despite their scientific reasonings. Indeed the dog did not seem to know that she was floating in air. Diana too, placed in space by Michel, reproduced, but without any trick, the wonderful suspension practiced by Caston and Robert Houdin. 'Ah!' exclaimed Michel Ardan, 'that is rather an amusing piece of natural philosophy.'Īnd immediately divers other objects, firearms and bottles, abandoned to themselves, held themselves up as by enchantment.

Up to this time, the travelers, while admitting that this action was constantly decreasing, had not yet become sensible to its total absence.īut that day, about eleven o'clock in the morning, Nicholl having accidentally let a glass slip from his hand, the glass, instead of falling, remained suspended in the air. But how should they know when the projectile had reached this neutral point situated at that distance, especially when neither themselves, nor the objects enclosed in the projectile, would be any longer subject to the laws of weight? Such was their situation and Barbicane clearly explained the consequences to his traveling companions, which greatly interested them.

Verne from the earth to the moon