> "Larry Hudson" a escrit
>> 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.

Marc Jacquier wrote:
> A kind of (squared) gradient of gravity?

Why squared?

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