Zeno's second paradox has to do with a bowman's flying arrow. Before the arrow can reach the target, it must first arrive at a point half the distance to the target; but before reaching the halfway point, it must arrive at the quarter-of-the-way point, be fore that it must get to the eighth-of-the-way point, and so on. Since the distance to the target could be divided up into an infinite number of such fractional parts, the arrow really cannot travel anywhere and it is not in motion at all.