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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials
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To: StanX Long who wrote (58711)1/11/2002 7:03:33 PM
From: Math Junkie  Read Replies (2) of 70976
 
OT - tides

It sounds like they are saying that the tides are not caused by the moon pulling on the water, but by the centrifugal force that results from the earth and moon revolving around their common center of mass. If that is the case, then the common center of mass must be somewhere inside the earth, because otherwise there would be no high tide on the side facing the moon.
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