How is it that the moon can affect the 352 quintillion gallons of water in the ocean, but not affect us?

Question

The moon depending on where it is at your time of day can affect whether or not there’s high or low tides. Basically moving all of the water in the ocean, at least that’s how I think. But how come it doesn’t make us feel lighter or heavier throughout the day? Or just seem to affect anything else

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Answer 1

It does. It’s just a case of scale. You are very small, and so the moon only has a very minor impact on you compared to the Earth.

The oceans are huge and span a large amount of the globe, so the tiny effect the moon has is much more observable over such a scale.