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etween water and air when they are pulled. For example,
water doesn’t change its density?
A: It does when it gets hotter or colder and when it turns to steam,
but not when it is acting in a tide..
Q: Since your thesis depends on the Moon pulling the air, I
don’t think it’s enough to presume about the height of the air
on the sides and far side of the earth. We can picture the
ocean’s bulge and its causes. There has to be a way found to
picture the atmosphere’s bulge- by experiment or measurement
ormathematical model - or an airtight line of reasoning.
A: It’s difficult to prove. One can only infer, by deduction, that it is
there. We do know about subatomic particles by the effects they
cause. Rutherford split an invisible atom. It seems we don’t have
to see them to form theories which are workable. I can’t see New
York, but logic tells me it’s there. By denying the role of the moon
scientists are not even applying gravitational dynamics.
Q: The moon’s bulge doesn’t change the pressure?
A: No, it just changes the height
Q: So the moon overhead must make the air both denser and
higher at the same time? that’s what the bulge means?
A: Higher, yes. Density would vary with height and temperature.
More volume, and more of it, though, for sure.
Q: Are you actually “looking at the moon” when you predict
the weather or looking at weather maps of earlier days?
A: Both. I’m looking at the Moon for the phases, at the size for
the perigee proximity, and presence and position in the sky. That
gives me a rough read for the next few days. But for the details I
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