I really feel the answer is NOT the 'moon phase ' as we've always been told. I think the Asteroid that hit Earth millions of years ago caused it to continue rocking backwards and forwards, and this causes all the water on earth to shift one way or the other. Try it yourself, fill any objet with a bit of water and rock it constantly.. the water goes the way you rock it. Something just doesnt feel right about the moonphase issue..I feel the earths rocking is so slight, we cant detect it, or maybe geostationary satelittes can?
2006-09-07 00:29:34 · 9 answers · asked by busola h 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
The phenomena to which you are referring is called a seich. The Great Lakes experience these storm seiches all the time (no tides, just the rocking back and forth of the lake in the basin due to approaching storms). I just really don't think that's what is going on with the oceans. We have enough satelites, as you point out, to be able to detect any earth sloshing. Nice idea though.
2006-09-07 00:38:47 · answer #1 · answered by just browsin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is not the moon PHASE, it is merely the moon orbiting the earth. Since the moon is fairly large relative to earth, and fairly close, it simply pulls the water closest to it, up, creating a bulge. To feed that bulge, the areas on the "sides" get depleted a bit. And the area at the "back", futhest away from the moon, also bulges because it is much less affected.
So if you want, you have an oval mass of water, around a round earth. That oval mass follows the moon so it rotates in about 28 days.
However the earth rotates much faster, once a day by definition. So any area of shoreline sees a bulge of water (high tide), then a depleted area (low tide), and so on.
This has nothing to do with the PHASES of the moon. The phases are determined by where the moon is in its orbit around the earth, which determines how we see it (not, growing crescent, full, waning crescent).
Hope this helps.
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2006-09-07 08:00:26 · answer #2 · answered by AntoineBachmann 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You've got to be kidding, right?
If the tides only moved due to an asteroid rocking the planet back and forth millions of years ago, then why is it still happening? We're not being hit by asteroids constantly like your example would require.
It's the gravitational effect of the moon. Believe it.
2006-09-07 07:36:22 · answer #3 · answered by J.D. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
urs is an interesting theory ok but the water tilts that way because u tilt it that way - - - water is a fluid meaning it can flow and since it doesnt hav a shape of its own it WILL move the way u make it
and as for the tides....its becos of the gravitational pull of the moon and the sun....i do think tht theory is pretty logical but if u dont think so ur going to hav to *** up with a betr theory....
2006-09-07 07:38:15 · answer #4 · answered by shraishra 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not the moon phase ( that is the waxing & waining of the moon). It is the gravitational pull of the moon that affects the tides.
2006-09-07 09:32:50 · answer #5 · answered by therandman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nice imagination
but reason is still moon phase
2006-09-07 07:40:50 · answer #6 · answered by R S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i heard it has to do something with the gravity from the earth and the sun
2006-09-07 07:37:07 · answer #7 · answered by jamican girl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no. Its the moon phase.
2006-09-07 07:35:02 · answer #8 · answered by justthinkin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the tide only flowed in, we'd all get wet.....
2006-09-07 07:35:14 · answer #9 · answered by nikkoj1975 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋