Tides and Gravity

 Tides: Cause and Effect

Misconceptions about the Ocean Tides and Gravity

The current fiction believed by most people is that the “gravity” of the moon is what causes tides.  But there is another, simpler, more believable solution to what causes tides.  Scientists say that millions of years ago a massive asteroid hit the earth, destroying the dominating life form at the time, the dinosaurs.  But this asteroid also affected the earth in two more ways. 

First, it created a massive wave so powerful it began to actually transverse the entire globe.  This was before the continental drift, when all the land masses were grouped together in one spot.  This caused a greater area for the wave to propagate.  And instead of dying out, the wave continued to slowly move it way around the earth thanks to the second effect of the asteroid: a small irregularity in the trajectory of the earth’s orbit around the sun. 

A minute wobble. 

This wobble caused a certain harmonic resonance with the wave, keeping it going for eons and forming it in such a way that the earth maintained its orbit.  So the moon has no effect on the tides.

Which is why tides look like this: 

And not this: