"Jay Windley" <webmaster@clavius.org> wrote in message
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"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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let me simplify this for you.

We are discussing the affect, the earth should have on the moon, to make it spin
on its planetary axis.

So we put a shaft, on a swivel from the center of the earth, through the moon
and lock it with a cotter pin.

Now we rotate the moon around the earth.

Ipso facto, no spin on the moons planetary axis.

But if you leave the reference frame in question, and become an outside observer,
you are now looking down on the earth moon system, but you are no
longer dealing with the force the earth has on the moon, you are now looking
at a different frame of reference and you see the moon make one full revolution
but that is not spin on its planetary axis.

And if the top scientists at Nasa are telling you it does spin, in accordance
to Newtons laws, and they are using a reference frame that does not include
the earth moon system, they are willfully decieving you for some reason.

Let us ask a real physicist in sci.physics.