Chapter 6

Tides

Tide 1 re­pre­sents a look at three sep­ar­ate flux sha­dows, and how they play a role in the moon/­earth’s ti­dal for­ces. The im­age is almost that of an e­clip­se re­pres­ent­ed by a pe­num­bra/um­bra dia­gram, but not quite.

For this ra­­tion­al­i­za­tion of how tides op­er­ate, we will ob­serve these groups and their op­pos­ing vec­tors one at a time. The first thing to do is to con­cen­trate on the cen­ter group. That is the group with the strong­est in­flu­ence: the group en­ter­ing from the lo­wer right cor­ner.

However, the representation is too busy as is, so we’ll strip the extra stuff away and look at a plane that cuts through this part of the universe including the earth. It is a slice through the center of the moon and earth that includes its solid iron core at the center surrounded by the molten outer core, the mantle, and the crust.

In this case, the three black ar­rows in Tide 2 go­ing all the way through the mo­on re­pre­sent that por­tion of flux that make it through un­scath­ed and hit the wa­ter on the sur­face of the earth. They are in op­po­si­tion of the se­ven dark ar­rows re­pre­sent­ing those that pen­e­trate the earth and at­tempt to push the wa­ter to­ward the moon.

Flux that makes contact with molecules head-on in the direction of another object has the greater influence. All others compete by applying a vector additive approach that ranges from a difference of zero to slightly less than head-on force. A simple example of that process is in the appendix because it is important to understand how every flux vector, no matter the direction, affects the bundle of matter.

Next, we zoom in on water that attempts to leave Earth for the moon in Tide 3.

When there is more flux in the moon’s di­rec­tion, it cre­ates a bul­ge in the o­cean. In this case it’s 7:3, which means that 2.33 times more force is ap­plied to the moon bound water. It isn’t e­nough to cause a stream, but it is a good start. There are stars or­bit­ing each other that real­ly do cause stream­ing of var­i­ous gas­ses from one to the other. Some stars con­tain­ing more mat­ter can lit­eral­ly drain its neigh­bors of eve­ry­thing they own. And it is done by the same pro­cess as just dis­cus­sed—ti­dal for­ces.

When one thinks about it, tides are just another view of how bodies are gathered via differential forces applied to clumps of matter. Every one of those clumps has a transparency shadow that brings them together.

 

The pre­vi­ous dis­cus­sion is re­stric­ted to the group of vec­tors mak­ing con­tact to wa­ter mol­e­cules in line with the moon. Of course, flux comes in from all di­rec­tions. The im­age in Tide 4 i­den­ti­fies the two groups com­ing from o­ther an­gles.