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From: Keith Williams
Date: 2003 Aug 27, 10:27 +0300
Trevor has emphasised inter-linked resonant amphidromic oscillations and de-bunked the Newtonian model
of two bulges. So it seems to me one problem is why do the periods of these sloshing
bowls all average out to produce two high tides a day virtually all over the
world?
AND I feel I am being led into confusing the
measurement of the phenomenon (ie the identification of the various
sub-oscillations) with their cause - an oscillation needs some force to create
it in the first place.
I also would assume that, as these oscillations appear
not to be decaying (any historical records to prove this?),
then the creating force still exists. There appears to be no doubt that we are
looking at a netting of the influences of sun, moon, gravity, centripetal and
centrifugal forces (is there a centrifugal force? I was taught that it was a
confusion for the previous-named force) but so far I at least have not been
attending closely enough to the various themes to identify a grand unification
of the forum's consensus as to why and how....
Personal note: As a reader in a desert
kingdom, I must say I love all this stuff...thanks to all who have the urge to
understand and explain....