>>14003109But the other side is still spinning and it is still feeling the gravity of the moon and the earth.
So every differential chunk of water on the earth has these forces on it: the pull of the earth’s gravity, the pull of the moon’s gravity that is changing, the momentum of its spin, the direction of flow of the water and the force of the next differential chunk of water pushing back against it, the land pushing against it or the air pushing against it, the density/temperature of the water…
Each point is going to be different.
Stuff all these in a 3d field and watch for the equilibrium.
The oceans are not that simple. They do all sorts of weird shit. But the bottom line is the one thing they do in the macro is bulge on both sides.
To say that is from the pull of the moon is wrong. But to say it is from the dynamic system of the earth moon water gravity... is valid.
It is everyone else that sees the picture and makes the wrong story that the moon is just pulling. How do we know it is wrong? Because if the moon were just pulling and there were nothing else going on, the bulge would not be on the other side.
