Posted: Jan 02, 2015 6:02 pm
DavidMcC wrote:And that's why it doesn't tell the whole story. In the whole story, centrifugal force cannot be ignored - the earth's oceans are like a large, wet gyroscope.
One day, you'll understand that, but evidently not yet.
Cannot be ignored for what? Considering the effect of tidal forces on non rotating bodies?
Because that's where your misunderstanding was, and in fact centrifugal forces (which are zero in that case) can indeed be ignored completely.
For some reason that isn't too clear you're trying to paint a reluctance to discuss the digression with some kind of ignorance or denialism. That couldn't be further from the truth.