The tide rises twice a day because the ocean bulges on both sides of Earth at once — the near side pulled toward the moon, the far side, strangely, left behind as the planet is tugged out from under it
Isaac Newton worked out in 1687 why the ocean bulges on both sides of Earth at once. The near-side bulge is pulled toward the Moon. The far-side bulge exists because the solid Earth itself is being…
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