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... The sun's gradient
is tiny compared to the Moon. The nearness of the moon causes the effect,....
...Considering that it seems (as I recall) to have taken 100s of millions of
Eventually, as the earth spins down losing energy by frictional heating of the
moon, earth and ocean, the tidal bulges on the earth's oceans WILL occurr
directly under the moon and we will be tidally locked to the moon. Similar
tidal interactions (greatly magnified) regularly turn Io inside-out as
it is squeezed like a tube of toothpaste in Jupiter's gravitational field
at a distance of only a little further than our moon, near a planet with 300X
the Earth's mass.
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