In the first part of the site, I presented the results of my research on seeds, how it is possible to increase yields, sowing in accordance with the cumulative-dissipative cycle.
In this second part of the site, I direct my attention to the phenomenon of the ocean tides.
What led me to become interested in tides.
On many occasions in my experiments with seeds, I have been able to observe when they soften most easily. This happens on a bi-diurnal cycle, reminiscent of the tides of most tidal basins - those with a bi-diurnal cadence.
However, when, in “experiment B”, I intervene with a magnet, the cadence of the cumulative-dissipative cycle changes, from bi-diurnal to diurnal, as happens in other tidal basins.
Possible commonalities between seeds and tides.
This fact led me to consider possible commonalities between seeds and tides.
There are some commonalities, but while in seeds I explain the phenomena as caused by the movement with respect to other matter, the phenomenon of the tide is currently explained as caused by gravity.
This led me to become interested in the current theory on tides, and to compare it to a provisional alternative theory, where the cause of the tide is no longer supposed to be gravity, but the movement with respect to other matter.
The result is a much simpler theory of tides. Compared to the current one, it passes the Occam's razor test with ease.
In fact, it does not involve the exceptions and complications of the current one, exceptions and complications that I will briefly list below.
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The state of tidal theory.
It is a fact that tides are due to the action of the Moon and, to a lesser extent, to the action of the Sun.
For over 330 years they have wanted to attribute the tidal phenomenon to gravity. At the cost of stating that, in the case of tides, a supposed horizontal component prevails, where the attraction effect decreases with the distance raised to the cube, rather than to the square.
So, it has been stated that the tides would also be due to gravity, albeit with a different formula than the normal one.
Five Points in the Theory of the Tides.
There are five points that prove that the tides are not due to attraction. 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, which would extend from north to south, and which would cross the oceans from east to west. And this is what is stated in two sources cited below as examples.
#1 The attraction of the moon is strongest on the side of the Earth which is facing towards it. Here the above-average pull causes the waters to bulge out toward the moon in a high tide. At the same time, on the far side of the Earth, the moon's attraction is at it's weakest, and the waters on that side bulge away from the moon, in an equal and opposite high tide.
(source: http://www.the-sea.org/tides.htm)
#2 “... the combination of gravity and inertia create two bulges of water. One forms where the Earth and Moon are closest, and the other forms where they are furthest apart. Over the rest of the globe gravity and inertia are in relative balance. Because water is fluid, the two bulges stay aligned with the Moon as the Earth rotates” (NOAA: Ross, D.A., 1995).
In fact, as NASA films show, tides actually occur as many 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 are not an obstacle.
Those who support the current theory see the formation of tidal basins in their own way. It would be the consequence of the fact that the two tidal waves find obstacles in the continents to their development towards the west.
As a matter of fact, tides develop naturally inside many basins.
Continents are not obstacles, as we can see better in the oceans that extend far from east to west (Pacific, Indian), and where there are also tidal basins that border other tidal basins, without being interrupted by land.
In other words, a tidal basin is not formed when the hypothetical formation of the tide in a westerly direction is interrupted by a continent.
Ultimately, each basin has its own tidal wave. Each tidal wave, instead of moving towards the west, turns at the edges of its own basin, and around its specific amphidromic point.
This is true for all basins; for those that have a continent as their western boundary; as well as those that have another tidal basin as their western boundary, and which lie in a deep, open ocean.
3 - The rhythms of the tides.
Another point that tells us that the tides are not caused by gravity is their cadence or frequency. Which can be bi-diurnal (it happens in most basins), diurnal, but also, in some locations, vary according to the season, and be bi-diurnal or diurnal.
All this would be impossible if the tides were due to gravity.
4 - When Earth, Moon and Sun are aligned.
Those in favor of the current theory, almost tied to it by faith, are not in the least surprised to have to affirm themselves that when Earth, Moon and Sun are aligned, no matter in what order, the attractive forces of Moon and Sun add together.
Here instead is that 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 the possibility of exception.
The Moon and the Sun can add together their attraction exerted on the water of the Earth, but only if they are on the same side, with respect to our planet.
If the Earth is between the Moon and the Sun, the attraction exerted by them on the water of our planet does not add together.
5 - The formula.
The normal formula of gravity must also be applied to the tides. The horizontal component is a pure invention, expressed to make a hypothesis fit. Period.
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A more “elegant” theory.
After having highlighted these five points regarding the current theory on tides, in the second part of the site, I will advance an alternative hypothesis on the tidal phenomenon, much simpler and “elegant”.
Processes due to movement with respect to other matter.
According to a hypothesis of mine, which requires confirmation by other researchers, the tides would be due to processes generated by movement with respect to other matter, where the effect decreases with the distance raised to the cube, as happens in the cumulative-dissipative processes in seeds.
This does not mean that cumulative-dissipative processes are active in the case of tides, just as they are in seeds.
Here, I consider just one factor that can generate different behaviors in seeds and water: the distribution of molecules. While I have performed experiments on seeds, I have not performed experiments on water.
Given my age, I leave this task to others.
The level of local magnetism determines the cadence of processes.
As demonstrated by experiment B, performed with a moving magnet, the cadence of the cumulative-dissipative cycle in seeds can assume a diurnal cadence, instead of the bi-diurnal one, normal in the place of the experiment if one does not intervene with the magnet.
The cadence of a tide is also determined by the level of local magnetism. When this force is at a normal level, the tide is bi-diurnal; if it is high, the tide assumes a diurnal cadence.