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In article <scottj-221292163050@iamac-1.dml.georgetown.edu>, scottj@magic.dml.georgetown.edu (John L. Scott) writes:
>Thanks for the reply.  I got "stretches the earth" from somebody else's
>post.  I took it to mean that the earth's shape was actually deformed to
>the point that it had a noticeable effect of the oceans.  I was skeptical
>of that idea.

You shouldn't've been.  There are tides on land, too, on the order of a couple
of feet.  If the Earth's crust were perfectly rigid, the ocean tides, relative
to the land, would be even higher.  Remember, too, that the oceans are part of
the Earth.  The tides are noticeable simply because the oceans are easier to
stretch than the crust.

>So, are you saying that the moon pulls the earth away from the water on the
>far side?  That certainly sounds reasonable to me.

Yes.  Please see another article I recently posted for the mathematics of it.
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