"Rick Sobie" <ricksobie@spamnotshaw.ca> wrote in message
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| And I can't believe that you do not understand physics...

I can easily believe that you do not understand physics.

| if a moon is applying a force on the earth and dragging
| the tides, as the moon rotates...

I think you mean "revolves".

| then an equal force should be applied to the moon, making
| it spin on its planetary axis.

Such a force would not create a rotation.  In fact, as you can tell from the
term "tidal locking", that force *reduces* rotation over time.

| But it does not

But it does.  If it didn't, we'd see the different aspects of it as it
revolved around us.

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