![]() This arrangement generates the exceptionally high spring tides. Once every 14.77 days, the Sun and Moon line up with Earth so that their tidal forces on Earth augment one another (see figure 1). The fact that tidal forces exerted by the Sun and Moon are comparable-but not equal-while the periodicities are less comparable, generates resultant tides on Earth’s oceans that exhibit strong, complex temporal modulation (tidal amplitude variation with respect to time). The Sun modulates tides on Earth with a periodicity of 24 hours while the Moon does so with a periodicity of 29.53 days. The Moon’s mass and current distance from Earth is such that it exerts about twice the tidal force on Earth as does the Sun. The Moon orbits close enough to Earth to exert an even stronger tidal force. 1Įarth orbits close enough to the Sun to receive a strong solar tidal force. This role was the subject of a research paper published in the British journal, Proceedings of the Royal Society A. ![]() One we did not discuss was how the nearly equal, but not exactly equal, tidal forces that the Sun and Moon exert on Earth play an important role in enhancing the biocomplexity, biodiversity, and biomass of Earth’s life. We not only witnessed a spectacular solar eclipse but also learned in several different ways how the Sun and Moon are exquisitely designed to enable the existence of human beings on Earth.Īt that conference we did not, by any means, exhaust all the known ways the Sun and Moon are designed for advanced life. We held the conference on a site and at the time of a total solar eclipse. In August 2017, Reasons to Believe organized a conference on the fine-tuned design of the Sun and Moon that makes advanced human civilization possible.
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