Chapter 4, page 2.
4.2 4.1 Two ways of representing the ocean tides.
4.2 Two approaches to explain the ocean tides.
4.3 Values of attraction.
4.4 The direction of the tide waves.
4.5 The continents and the flowing of the tide waves.
4.6 Number of the tide waves.
4.7 Tide waves and sublunar points.
4.8 The physical equation for the ocean tides.
4.9 When Earth, Moon and Sun are aligned.
4.10 Tide cadences.
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Current way of explaining the phenomenon.
.1 In the current way of explaining the phenomenon of the ocean tides, they start assuming the cause, the attraction exerted on the water of the oceans. Then, they outline how the tides should work.
.2 Indeed, the resulting explanation is at odds with several facts, some of them of crucial importance.
See three examples, briefly mentioned.
From the behaviour of the ocean tides to their cause.
.3 Much better, as the first step, (1) to analyse the behaviour of the ocean tides, following an inductive method, with no a priori assertion [chapter 4];
then (2) make a list of constraints, inferred from the aforesaid analysis [chapter 5];
and, eventually, (3) to propose a solution compatible with all the constraints [chapter 6].
Two different visions.
.4 The outcomes of the two procedures are different. They differ even in the physical equation.
.5 In the current procedure, the effect of the force decreases proportionally to the square of the distance. Later corrected with an ad hoc explanation, where the attraction formula, in the case of the ocean tides only, would be an exception.
.6 At the end of the inductive procedure, the cause, coming out as the most plausible, is still due to the interaction between masses of matter - whose the gravity or attraction is one of its effects - where also the movement is taken into account.
.7 In the case of the ocean tides, also the movement is taken into account; a movement, whose discrete values of angular velocity, may be critical, with regard to the configurational state of the water molecules.
.8 With the movement, the effect of the force decreases in proportion to the cube of the distance between the masses that generate it. No call for an exception is needed.
A check-up in the form of comparison.
.9 This is the time, to subject the current way of explaining the phenomenon of the ocean tides, to a sort of check-up, considering several points, and arguments.
.10 During the preparation of this chapter, I have considered also some points, kept implicit, of a provisional list, where the two approaches show differences.
See the list of the issues considered.
Analysis of the behaviour of the ocean tides.
In chapter five, the reader will find a list of the constraints deduced from the behaviour of the ocean tides, that a theory on them should meet.
In chapter six, I will propose an hypothesis, supposed to be in agreement with all the constraints, as outlined in chapter 5.
In chapter seven, I will present some examples of tide waves at Venice.
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