Mode: Science (Σ-clean)
Primary Concept: Long-horizon non-closure in a rotating Earth frame
1. The Standard Story
Conventional physics attributes tides to differential gravitational attraction: the Moon pulls more strongly on the near side of Earth than the far side, creating two bulges.
This explanation requires invisible forces acting instantaneously across space and perfectly repeating each orbit.
2. The Frame We Actually Live In
Earth is not an inertial frame. It rotates, translates, and wobbles while transporting oceans, atmosphere, and crust.
Tides are measured in this non-inertial Earth frame — not in an abstract barycentric one.
3. Transported Water Has Memory
Ocean water is not pulled into shape each cycle. It is transported with Earth while retaining velocity, phase, and orientation memory.
As Earth rotates beneath the Moon, transported water fails to close perfectly with the imposed frame.
4. Tidal Bulges as Non-Closure
The so-called tidal bulges are regions where transported water lags or leads the rotating Earth frame.
They appear fixed relative to the Moon only when closure is enforced by averaging over time.
5. Why There Are Two Bulges
Non-closure produces opposing phase offsets on the leading and trailing sides of Earth’s rotation.
This symmetry does not require attraction. It follows directly from frame transport with rotation.
6. Spring and Neap Tides
Spring and neap cycles arise from accumulated phase mismatch between Earth’s rotation, lunar orbital transport, and solar frame alignment.
The tides do not reset each orbit. Memory accumulates.
7. Why the Force Story Persists
The gravitational explanation enforces closure each cycle, erasing memory and reintroducing forces to account for what was discarded.
It works numerically because it is an effective bookkeeping scheme.
8. The Inertia Encyclopedia Position
Tides are inertial phenomena observed in a rotating, accelerating frame.
No attraction is required — only transported water, persistent memory, and non-closure under rotation.