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Itinerary 2.2
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Five Points in the Tidal Theory.
There are five points that, in my opinion, prove that the tides are not due to gravity.
1 - How the tides develop.
2 - The continents are not an obstacle.
3 - The rhythms of the tides.
4 - When the Earth, Moon, and Sun are aligned.
5 - The formula.
1 - How the tides develop.
If the tides were due to gravity, they would develop like two great tidal waves, extending from north to south and crossing the oceans from east to west.
As the advocates of the current tidal theory have stated.
As shown in the NASA footage shown above, the tides actually occur as numerous tidal waves, each moving within its own basin, like the hands of a clock, clockwise in the southern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere.
2 - Continents do not impede.
Those who support the current theory view the formation of tidal basins in their own way. It would be the consequence of the continents blocking the two tidal waves' westward development.
In fact, tides develop naturally within numerous basins. Continents do not impede this, as we can best see in oceans that extend far from east to west (Pacific, Indian), and where there are also tidal basins that border other tidal basins, uninterrupted by land.
In other words, a tidal basin does not form when the hypothetical formation of the westward tide is interrupted by a continent.
Ultimately, each basin has its own tidal wave. Each tidal wave, instead of moving westward, turns around the edges of its own basin, and around its specific amphidromic point.
This is true for all basins; for those whose western boundary is a continent; as well as for those whose western boundary is another tidal basin, and which are located in a deep, open ocean.
3 - Tidal rhythms.
Another point of current theory that conflicts with how gravity works is the tidal rhythm, which can be bidiurnal (as occurs in most basins), diurnal, but also, in some locations, vary seasonally and be bidiurnal or diurnal.
All this would be impossible if the tides were due to gravity.
4 - When the Earth, Moon, and Sun are aligned.
Those who support the current theory, almost bound to it by faith, are not the least surprised to have to affirm that when the Earth, Moon, and Sun are aligned, regardless of the order, the attractive forces of the Moon and Sun add together.
Instead, attraction is a force that can be added or subtracted depending on the positions between the masses. On the main line of force, it is unidirectional. Always, without exception.
The Moon and the Sun can add together their attraction on the Earth's water, but only if they are on the same side of our planet.
When the Earth is between the Moon and the Sun, their attraction on our planet's water does not add together.
5 - The formula.
The standard formula for gravity also applies to the tides. The horizontal component is a pure invention, expressed to make a hypothesis fit. Period.
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In the third itinerary on tides.
In the third itinerary on tides, I will propose that they are due to cumulative-dissipative processes, which are caused by motion relative to other matter. That tides occur in tidal basins. That their bi-diurnal, diurnal, or mixed frequency depends on the strength of the local magnetic field.