01 JAN 2010 by ideonexus
Tides Created the Moon
There were tides in the new earth, long before there was an ocean. In response to the pull of the sun the molten liquids of the earth's whole surface rose in tides that rolled unhindered around the globe and only gradually slackened and diminished as the earthly shell cooled, congealed and hardened. Those who believe that the moon is a child of earth say that during an early stage of teh earth's development something happened that caused this rolling, viscid tide to gather speed and momentum ...Folksonomies: falsified hypotheses
Folksonomies: falsified hypotheses
In 1951, the predominant theory on the origin of the moon was that tidal forces on a molten Earth swung a chunk of it off into orbit.