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Chapter 4, page 6.
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4.1 Action by the Moon and by the Sun.
4.2 Modality of action: attraction.
4.3 The ocean tides observed from the space.
4.4 Values of attraction.
4.5 The direction of the tide waves.
4.6 The continents and the flowing of the tide waves.
4.7 Number of the tide waves.
4.8 Tide waves and sublunar points.
4.9 The physical equation for the ocean tides.
4.10 When Earth, Moon and Sun are aligned.
4.11 Tide cadences.
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#11 - The continents block the flowing of the tide waves. / No, they do not.
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On this point, the proponents of the two ways of explaining the ocean tides disagree.
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#11 - The continents block the flowing of the tide waves.
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(current approach) The two tide waves travel in westerly direction. However, the continents stand in their way.
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So they are diverted towards the equator. Somehow, they deviate.
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#11 - They do not.
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(alternative approach) That is not true. One has just to consider the tides in the oceans whose longitudinal extension is large (Pacific, and Indian Oceans).
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For each basin, there is a tide wave, which, instead of moving horizontally westward, moves around the amphidromic point. That is true for all the tide basins, does not matter whether its western border is a continent, or an open and deep ocean.
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#09 - Again on the direction of the tide waves.
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A tide wave is not westbound; its movement is roughly circular. In the theory of the ocean tides, the horizontal component, supposed to be westbound, is used as an ad hoc image, meant to save the original assertion.
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