Re: Moon hitting earth?

Timberwoof wrote:

You're just arguing from ignorance. If you understood the math that describes tides, you could work out for yourself how the tides affect the moon's orbit.

In short, since water has viscosity[1], the high tide points are not exactly opposite the moon, but lag back a significant amount. It turns out that that lag in turn causes a minute gravitational pull on the moon which slows it down in its orbit, sending it away.


Duh - me ignorant enjinear. Does not the Earth rotate faster than the Moon's orbital period ? So that the high tide points LEAD ? So that the minute pull SPEEDS it, sending it away ? And slows the Earth's rotation, making the day longer ?

CONSERVE MOMENTUM - it's de law.

Jim Lillie
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