Space Weather

[arabianights]

Make that millions of times stronger... actually the relative difference between standing in London or standing in New York is hundreds of times greater than the variations from the moon.

 

[arabianights]

i wasn't saying it is true, i was just talking about the moons effect on tides? think everyone is getting a bit muddled up here on who is claiming what lol

Everyone knows the moon is the major cause of oceanic tides but very few of them actually understand how.

 

[new_trader]

i wasn't saying it is true, i was just talking about the moons effect on tides? think everyone is getting a bit muddled up here on who is claiming what lol

Yes, but I explained earlier, gravity from the moon exerts a force on everything. It's just the force on the worlds oceans is much more obvious. Mountain ranges do get higher due to the moons gravitational pull and I would say it's much more likely that a tall heavy building would exert more gravity on you than the moon.

 

[adamscj]

I would say it's much more likely that a tall heavy building would exert more gravity on you than the moon.

Depends how far away you stand! Remebering the equation from GCSE physics (gravitational force = G*m1*m2 / distance^2) we could estimate:

m1 = 70kg
m2 = 7.36E+22kg for the moon
m2 = 15000000kg for a building (Fu Gang building in China)
distance to moon = 3.8E+10m

so gravitational force of the building is about 30 times that of the moon if you're standing 1 meter away. To make them equal, you would need to stand about 5 meters away from the building