Originally Posted by coughthecat:
“Oh come on! It's simple!
The moon doesn't 'power' the tides. The tides cause the moon to orbit the earth.
The movement of the water produces what is essentially a 'standing wave' in the atmosphere which has built up over millennia. At the very upper reaches of the atmosphere is a dense layer and the moon basically 'surfs' on that.”
“Oh come on! It's simple!
The moon doesn't 'power' the tides. The tides cause the moon to orbit the earth.
The movement of the water produces what is essentially a 'standing wave' in the atmosphere which has built up over millennia. At the very upper reaches of the atmosphere is a dense layer and the moon basically 'surfs' on that.”
100% correct;
…this simple graph makes the principle very easy to understand.



