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THE EARTH, THE MOON, GRAVITY, TIDES AND WEIGHT

By: kofot send a private message
Bloemfontein : South Africa | 2 months ago  
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It is generally acknowledged, and far be it for me to argue, that the force of gravity exerted by the moon on the Earth is strong enough to raise the level of the oceans, thereby bringing about the tides. Now, to my simple mind, that is an awful lot of water and water, being heavy stuff, that is an awful lot of weight.

This brings me to my questions:

1. If the moon’s gravity is so powerful that it can overcome the Earths gravity to the extent that it can lift all that water, why do my feet remain so firmly on the ground?

2. When the moon’s gravity is at its greatest and the Earth experiences high tides, why don’t my bathroom scales show a kilo or two less when I stand on them?

I am sure that there are whole hoards of scientists and mathematicians who know these answers and can give perfectly logical explanations for the phenomena, or lack thereof. I’d like to know too.

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  • Posted By brigidprimrose brigidprimrose | 2 months ago
    I think the pull of gravity only works on me when it pulls me towards the fridge when there is a little, or a lot of last nights pudding left over.
    Perhaps sometimes there is a very real gravity effect such as when I see something I really like and my heads seems to go into the clouds while I dream about how I can get my hands on it.
    I am also not quite sure if the tides have any affect on my moods, or am I just more or less grumpy all the time.

    Very interesting article, thanks.
  • Posted By spike-breaker08 spike-breaker08 | 2 months ago
    I think the gravitaional pull of the moon causes some mysterious force and effect to all living and non-living things on earth. There might be an explanation to that but it quite interesting to know the exact reason why.
  • Posted By codyramey codyramey | 2 months ago
    Love the article hate the gravity it hurts
  • Posted By mllovric mllovric | 2 months ago
    If you do research or investigate the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
    Saints, in other words, the Mormons. You may learn from them that their belief is that the spirit world is situated directly above the moon. They
    even pointed it out to me once. Their idea is whenever someone dies, their
    astral enters the spirit world where they sit and wait for new births to
    take place, whenever a baby is born, one of the departed souls is sent to
    earth to be reborn or reincarnated as a new born babe while the newly dead
    join the end of the line to wait for their turn, so the reason for up and down. If there are too many people dying and not enough being born,
    the moon tends to drop lower than usual. But if there are many babies
    being born and not enough dead to supply their spirits to life, the moon tends to be much higher than usual. So you get the sea saw action
    of low moon - high tide, high moon - very low tide etc. In the case of
    wars where hundreds are being killed or ships and plain loads of people
    being killed in disasters, tsunamis, earthquakes etc, the moon becomes
    too heavy, so it must come down. Laater on, when it evens out a bit with the sould being sent to new born babes, it stays stable. 6/10/2009.
  • Posted By Punditty Punditty | 2 months ago
    In honor of the late, great Jim Carroll, a link to "Wicked Gravity" is posted below. If not highlighted, just copy and paste into your address bar.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bFwbBcRXLE
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