If the moon has enough power to push vast oceans back and forth, why cant we feel it against our bodies.?

Answer 1

The water is beside the point. The Moon's gravity motives tides in the entire mass of the Earth. the entire planet is distorted. Water, being extra fluid, is distorted extra, which we see as a tidal effect on the seashores, however the effect would be the same if it replaced into water, alcohol or custard. The effect from the Moon's gravity is tiny on the size of someone. think of relating to the tides. they seem significant, yet a transformation of a few ft is infrequently massive pondering the intensity and width of the oceans. We may well be 80% water, yet there is not any specific connection between the Moon and water.

Answer 2

The moon does, indeed, act on your body, but the effect is so miniscule that you cannot feel it.

Gravitational Force = Gravitational Constant x Mass 1 x Mass 2 divided by Distance squared.

Gravitational Constant = G = 6.673E-11 m3 kg-1 s-2
Mass of Moon = Mass 1 = 7.36E22 kg
Distance varies, but averages around 384,000 km (384,000,000 m)

So, if you weigh, say, 150 pounds (68 kg), the force of gravity acting on you from the moon would be about 0.0023N, or about 3 millionths of the force of gravity you feel from the earth.

The moon acts on the oceans because they are so massive - billions of kilograms. In fact, the solid earth also experiences tides, but very small movement compared with the oceans (solid versus liquid).

Answer 3

Actually, the moon is not pushing vast oceans. The oceans are permanently "bulged" in the direction of the moon and the earth rotates on its axis, and as it rotates, the continents slosh through the bulge. We don't feel the gravitational effects of the moon because they are always there, and effect things here in a very wide, general way, like the bulge in the ocean.

Answer 4

Here is an excellent discussion by a physicist as to why you *cannot* feel the tidal force of the moon:
http://www.jal.cc.il.us/~mikolajsawicki/ex_tides.html#comments

In order to have a tide, you need a *difference* in gravitational force acting over a distance in a body of water. In an ocean, the distances are large, so the difference in force exerted by the moon's gravity, even though that actual difference is tiny, becomes significant enough to result in a bulge in that body of water. In a human body, the difference between the right and left side of the body is measured in inches, so the *difference* in the moons gravity over different parts of the body is infinitesimal.

Oceans, on the other hand, are thousands of miles across, and so they experience small but significant differences in the moon's pull, depending on where you are situated on the globe.

Even the Great Lakes in the US, which are hundreds of miles across, develop tides on the scale of 1 to 4 cm. http://www.great-lakes.net/teach/chat/answers/100100_tides.html

Consider that Lake Erie is about 250 miles long. If Lake Erie were scaled to the size of a 6 ft. human, that is a linear scale factor of about 220,000. So, you might expect a human "tide" to be on the scale of 0.2 micrometers, or less than 1/10 the diameter of a red blood cell. You simply cannot sense such small changes.

Answer 5

It does effect us somewhat. Contact any hospitol and you'll find out that it over staffs its personnel in the emergency room during the day before during and after a full moon. Deer for instance will lie down and rest most of the time but when the moon is straight up or straight down or at right angles to the earth they will get up and move around to eat. It affects everything, you just don't notice it.

Answer 6

We can, ever jump up and then fall back down to the ground. I'm just joking, I really don't know the answer. Maybe it works like a butterfly effect, it creates movement in the ocean that's at first really minuscule but one small movement moves more waves and so on, so waves get bigger. K, that probably sounded stupid and I probably have it completely wrong, but o-well, I'm sure someone on here will have the correct answer and then we'll both learn something new.

Answer 7

Gravitation

Answer 8

how do you know you cant...see we never really experience the feeling while sleeping. We are just so used to what it feels like while awake in the daytime. Ever notice that weird light headed feeling you get when you have stayed up all night? Thats gotta be the moon...right?

Answer 9

it all has to do with the fact hat we are to otiny to fell thta power like how we don't feel it when the earth moves.

Answer 10

Because being a witch like me we feel it in our souls baby x