jra wrote:Cannydc wrote:art0hur0moh wrote:Cannydc wrote:art0hur0moh wrote:so You know the Moon influences the tides? then why dosent the Sun draw all the water from east to west during the dialy procession? so where is all the water located?
It's all about gravitational pull (see Isaac Newton)
The sun is 400 times as far away as the moon. It actually has a NEGATIVE gravitational on the Earth. It's complicated, but here;
https://www.khanacademy.org/science/ap- ... tances-ap1
during an eclipse of the Sun there should only be one tide in a 24 hour period. I don't live near the coast so can't test My theory. an ddurin an eclipse of the Moon two tides in a 24 hour period. came across the term yesterday dicot, semi-dictot something or other?
Tides are caused by the gravitational pull of the moon. The Sun has no gravitational effect on tides.
An eclipse of the sun is simply the moon positioned between the Earth and the sun, blocking the light.
Therefore the moon's rotation around the Earth is not altered, so similarly tides are not altered too.
What do you think spring and neap tides are if The Sun has no gravitational effect on the tides?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tide#Rang ... _and_neaps
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education ... tions.html
TBH, JRA, it became just too complicated to try factoring stuff like that in, when trying to explain how a solar eclipse has no discernable effect... I lost the will to live