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Re: Effect of Moon on balance?



Savinainen Antti wrote:

The gravitational pull of the Moon cannot be measured on the Earth
using a balance; precision of the balance has nothing to do with it.
The Earth is in free fall toward the common center of mass in the
Earth-Moon system.

That might be true if the earth were pointlike.
But it's not.

The "center" of the earth is in free-fall toward
the center of mass, but your laboratory is not.

Tides are easily detectible.
http://www.monmouth.com/~jsd/physics/tides.htm