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Re: TIDES, pedagogy.



I guess the LAND bulges are more 'real'. Dirt doesn't slosh as much
as water does.



At 10:54 PM -0600 on 9/5/01, Jim Green wrote
Look folks, despite the Great Newton and the almost as Great Feynman --
there is no tidal "bulge" -- The evidence is quite simple and convincing if
one were to take a moment to consider it. But some like to revel in the
myths. They won't take that moment. The myths of grammar school have too
great a hold on their souls. Tsk.

The "force field" has a "bulge" (sort of); the gravitational potential has
a "bulge," but the water does not.

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