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Originally Posted by dutche
so the common theory sujests the moon being over the high tide but allows room for this not being the case. or maybe the theory is wrong.
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Maybe, but that's a really huge maybe.
Imagine you're holding a garden hose, that has a steady stream of water coming out of it with enough pressure to push it out a few feet if the hose is horizontal. You move like a top spinning, and the stream bends. Now, all that water is still going straight out from you, but because you moved the stream is curved. The "end" of the stream needs time to catch up to the "beginning" (the hose end). That's a bit like what
Jason Thompson meant when he said:
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Originally Posted by Jason Thompson
That's because the Moon is going round the earth every twenty-eight days, but the Earth is spinning every twenty-four hours. The tidal bulge created by the pull of the Moon's gravity is pulled ahead of the Moon by the Earth's rotation, hence the Moon does not lie exactly over the high tide but rather lags behind.
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