I’m researching how tides work as part of a book I’m writing, and I came across the term “Amphidromic Points” a couple of times. I did read through the Wikipedia page on them ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphidromic\_point](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphidromic_point)) but there’s a lot of math involved that I didn’t quite understand.
Was curious if anyone here might be able to better explain it in layman’s terms?
In: Planetary Science
Tides are a bulge of water pulled by the moon and sun acting together.
If there was no land that bulge would just go around the earth
But because the world is not one ocean the bulge has to circulate
There’s a point that bulge revolves around and where there is no movement up and down from the tide
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