Marc Jacquier wrote:

> news:Cra### [at] econymdemoncouk...
> 
>>Wasn't it Marc Jacquier who wrote:
>>

>>>news:434e9f3b$1@news.povray.org...
>>>In other words, to
>>>
>>>>simplify things, without extra masses...you weigh less at noon?
>>>>
>>>
>>>Don't tides work this way?
>>
>>Not at all. If that was how tides worked, there would only be one tide
>>per day instead of two. Tidal forces also make you lighter when the
>>extra mass is directly below your feet.
>>
>>-- 
> 
> The secon rise is due to a resonnance, an harmonic
> 
> Marc
> 

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 -=-

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