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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The moons gravity does make us lighter and heavier throughout the day. It’s just by a really tiny, practically unnoticeable amount.
The reason why it has such a big effect on water is because water is a liquid and is sensitive to tiny changes in gravity.
For example, let’s say your standing on floor that is very slightly angled downward, maybe a 0.5 degree tilt. You probably wouldn’t notice. However if you spilled water on the floor, it would immediately flow down to the lower side.
0.0001% difference in your weight is nothing.
0.000001% of the oceans weight is still a lot
Tidal bulges are created by a difference in the strength of gravity.
The ocean stands the entire planet. There are thousands of miles difference between the two sides.
This creates a small difference in the force of gravity.
Water flows pretty easily, so this small difference is enough to cause it to flow to the side and create a tide.
Humans are much smaller. The difference in gravity between our head and feet is essentially zero. So the effect is very very very small.
And we are made of much more sturdy bonds than water. We don’t flow into a very thin puddle after all.
This means to see an effect we would need a much stronger difference in gravity than the oceans feel.
What exactly is a tidal bulge? Does water flow from areas of low tide to areas of high tide? Is water less dense at high tide? In other words, where does the “extra” water come from at high tide?
Imagine the moon as a big friend in the sky. It’s so far away that it doesn’t really make us move or feel different. But, it’s so strong that it can make the water in the big oceans wiggle a little bit. This wiggling makes the water go up and down, creating tides that come and go on the beach. So, the moon’s strong pull makes the water play a little dance, but it’s not strong enough to make us dance too because we’re much smaller than the big oceans.
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I remember Carl Sagan on Johney Carson. He answered the OPQ. He explained how relative size and distance of the oceans vs the moon are what matter and said that a ping pong ball on your shoulder exerts more gravitational force on body than the moon does.
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Who says it doesn’t?
It, infact, does. For example, menstrual cycles are based on lunar cycles, which is why they occur roughly every 28 days.
That’s just the most notable effect because it has something physical that occurs that you can see and experience.
It effects different hormone levels and other circadian rythms as well.
Here’s a study on it. The abstract is an easy read.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16407788/
Talk to any Labor and Delivery nurse and they will tell you the moon absolutely has an effect on us.
Talk to any Police officer or EMT and they will say the same.
Is it the same effect as the water? No but they do exist and can be mathematically predicted
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