the moon is tidally locked to the earth. supposedly, from my understanding, this happens because the side facing the earth is subject to stronger gravitational forces than the side facing away, and thus it's pulled toward the earth with more force than the other side, causing it to constantly face the earth. whether or not this is actually the truth, I'm not sure, but it doesn't seem suspicious to me.
Why is this type of rotation any different than the planets orbiting the sun? Surely the sun is big enough to cause a similar effect with at least some of the closer planets, just as the Earth does with the moon.
supposedly planets rotations ARE slowing down, actually, just not at a rate at which it'll have any real effect. (from what I've read earth days become about 2 milliseconds longer per year, so it would take hundreds of years to even increase the length of a day by one second.)
note that I haven't done extensive research on this and this could all be horseshit.
the moon is tidally locked to the earth. supposedly, from my understanding, this happens because the side facing the earth is subject to stronger gravitational forces than the side facing away, and thus it's pulled toward the earth with more force than the other side, causing it to constantly face the earth. whether or not this is actually the truth, I'm not sure, but it doesn't seem suspicious to me.
Why is this type of rotation any different than the planets orbiting the sun? Surely the sun is big enough to cause a similar effect with at least some of the closer planets, just as the Earth does with the moon.
supposedly planets rotations ARE slowing down, actually, just not at a rate at which it'll have any real effect. (from what I've read earth days become about 2 milliseconds longer per year, so it would take hundreds of years to even increase the length of a day by one second.)
note that I haven't done extensive research on this and this could all be horseshit.
"note that I haven't done extensive research on this and this could all be horseshit."
This is the problem -- you don't know what's true and what's false anymore.
you're right, I don't know. I'm just offering my opinion on it is all.