Chapter 4, page 9.
4.9 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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On this topic, the two approaches agree on the facts, but not on the relation between cause and effect.
#05 - When the Earth, the Moon and the Sun are aligned.
.1 When the Earth, the Moon and the Sun are aligned, irrespective of the order of their alignment, the forces of the Moon, generating the ocean tides on our planet, are added to those of the Sun.
.2 The content of the first paragraph of this page is the assertion of a fact, on which the two approaches agree.
.3 However, the two approaches eventually collide on the attribution of its cause.
#02 - Modality of action: attraction.
Considering only the Moon.
.4 (current approach) The attraction of the Moon exerted on the water is stronger on the side of the Earth facing the Moon. That pulls the water toward the Moon (first bulge, or tide wave). On the opposite side of the Earth, the attraction exerted by the Moon is at the weakest degree; another bulge gets formed because of that.
.5 When the celestial body is over the meridian point, its strength of attraction is at the strongest degree. When the celestial body is over the opposite point, it is the centrifugal force which prevails.
Moon and Sun on the same side.
.6 (current approach, considering the action of the Moon and Sun, during a day of new Moon, when the two celestial bodies are on the same side) The attraction of the Moon and the Sun add up. On the other side of our planet, their attraction is at its weakest degree.
On the logic used up to this point.
.7 (inductive approach) In the logic used up to this point, in the last three paragraphs, the positions of the Moon and of the Sun - which are on the same side, with regard to the Earth - are arguments used to tell us that their attractions add up. And that this sum is highest, on the side of our planet, facing both celestial bodies, and lowest, on the opposite side.
Moon and Sun in opposition.
.8 (Current approach; considering the action of the Moon and Sun, during a day of full moon, when the two celestial bodies are in opposition). Even then, their attraction adds up.
On the logics used here.
.9 (inductive approach) It is pointed out that, in the current way of presenting the theory, a different logic is used when the Earth is between the Moon and the Sun. Then, the position becomes irrelevant.
.10 Phrases such as “the attraction is stronger on the side”, “weakest on the opposite side” are no longer used. As if a different physical law comes into action.
Constraint.
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Indeed, the physical force which causes the ocean tides must fulfill also this constraint: that it must be compatible with the fact - reported on the first paragraph of this page - that it works in such a way that the direction of its action, on the main line of force, is indifferent.
.12 The attraction is a physical force which may be added, or subtracted, depending on the positions of the masses. On its main line of force, it is unidirectional. Always. No exception is possible.
.13 The Moon and the Sun can attract the water here on the Earth, adding their strength, but only on the condition that they are on the same side with regard to our planet.
.14 If the Earth is between the Moon and the Sun, their attraction exerted on the water of our planet, is not to be added; on the contrary, a subtraction should be done.
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