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> No, it's not a resonnance.  The way I've heard the two tides explained
> is that the ocean is raised by the moon's gravity on that side of the
> earth, but it also pulls the _earth_ away from the water on the far
> side.  So the high tide on the far side is not that the water is higher,
> but that the earth is lower.
>
>       -=- Larry -=-

A kind of (squared) gradient of gravity?

Marc

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