Moon question ...?

Question

Well ... sort of ...
Does the gravitational pull of the moon affect all liquids or just water? Or does no one really now? Cheers :-)

Answer 1

It would affect all liquids. THe reason you only hear about water is because it is the most common liquid, and the only one in concentrations large enough to be really affected.

Answer 2

Well, the gravitational force of the moon pulls on anything that has mass, i.e. matter - all liquid, solid, gas, plasma, etc. So the entire eath is affected. The most noticeable effect is the rising of the tides. Actually, the tides are caused by both the gravitation of the sun and the moon, but the moon's gravitational pull is stronger due to its proximity.

In fact, according to Einstein's general relativity, gravitational pull of the moon will also affect non-matter, like light and other electromagnetic radiation and ... slow down time. It's just that they are so insignificant that they can be ignored.

Answer 3

Gravity affects ALL matter, solids as well as liquids. The pull of the Moon actually causes the Earth to get distorted into an ellipsoid shape, but because the Earth is fairly rigid this effect is hardly noticeable. The oceans are more "flexible" so here the ellipsoid shape is more pronounced. There's a bulge of ocean on the side facing the moon, and another one on the opposite side. These are the high tides. As the Earth rotates, the bulges of ocean water keep their respective positions in regards to the Moon, that's why there are 2 high tides every day. There is simply not enough water in, say, a swimming pool for the Moon's gravitational pull to really be noticeable.

Answer 4

Umm...I'm not sure if it affects all liquids. I'll just tell you what I know...

The gravitational pull of the moon tends to pull "water surrounding the earth" toward the point closest to the moon while centrifugal forces tend to pull water in the opposite direction. The same is true for the sun, but to a lesser extent because it is much farther away to us than the moon.

Hope that helps...

Answer 5

well it mainly effects the ocean, high tide and low tide is caused by the gravitational pull of the rotatoin of the moon around the earth and the earth around the sun and the constant rotation of the objects........... but i guess that if u put water in a bowl outside and recorded it on tape u could c the diffrence, so it would work on all liquids and bodies of water.

Answer 6

If you calculate the force of gravity due to the moon on any extended body like the oceans it depends on the difference between two inverse squares, which in the first approximation varies as the inverse cube of the distance. Whether this is sufficiently large to influence the hydrogen bonds between water molecules in our bodies so affecting our metabolism is conjectural...

Answer 7

The moon's gravity pulls on every single particle of matter on, or in, the earth.

It takes a very large amount of water to produce obvervable effects, however.

Answer 8

The moon has it's own gravity. Since Earth is pulling the moon, the moon also pulls the Earth causing the water to rise up, when the moon shows up.

Answer 9

All liquids. It takes sophisticated instruments to measure the effects of the moon on small bodies of liquids.

Gravity knows no boundaries.

Answer 10

it effects the tides of bodies of water. Water is the only geographical liquid formations on earth. If there were oceans of other liquids the moon would effect it's tides too, but there are not.