Ocean tides are not caused by the moon pulling the Earth's water. (I realize this goes against what the world believes at this time, but consider, if you will....)

submitted by In-the-clouds from self.space

The moon does not have that power.

The sun is much more massive than the moon and exerts more gravitational pull on the Earth, keeping it in orbit around itself, and yet the tides are not attributed to the sun, either.

Experiment: Fill a bathtub with water and place a large, spherical magnet about 33 feet above it. Will the water move? No. The water will remain perfectly still. The mass of the magnetic ball will neither pull on the water with magnetic force or with gravitational force. The water will not move.

Now, get into the bathtub and lie down with your head above the water. Breathe. With every breath you take, you can observe the water move up and down. As you breathe in and expand your lungs, the water rises. As you breathe out and deflate your lungs, the water falls. The movement of the water is due to your breathing. Similarly, the ocean tides are due to the planet breathing, as the Earth expands and contracts.

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Experiment: Measure the change in the orbit of man-made satellites as they pass under the moon. Does the moon pull them away from Earth?

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[–]ID10T 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Dunning-Kruger in full effect. Dude it's common knowlege the sun affects the tides as well as the moon. A simple youtube search "how does the sun affect tides" gives a number of easy-to-understand videos explaining the tides.

[–]In-the-clouds[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm not surprised you disagree with me again. My point about the sun is that the world believes its pull on the oceans is weaker than the moon's pulling power, even though the sun has far greater mass and gravitational pull on the Earth. The world believes the opposite, that the moon has more gravitational power than the sun specifically on the oceans. And yet the Earth does not orbit the moon, but it orbits the sun, showing the sun is more powerful.

Anyone who would like to try my experiment will see the reality that the moon has no power over the ocean waters.

You could do another similar experiment to test the sun's power to pull water. If you have access to a swimming pool with only water inside of it, watch if the water moves from one side to another as the day changes to night, as the earth turns toward the sun and away from it.

The water will not move at all from the sun's apparent change in location in the sky.

Ocean tides are due to the dynamically changing shape of the Earth. The swimming pool does not change shape, so you do not see the water in it move, no matter where the sun and the moon are located.