Jul 1923
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Nature, Volume 112, Issue 2803, pp. 100 (1923).
Computer Science
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To any one who understands the theory of gravitation, Mr. M'Lennan's letter is a complete justification of the note. To those who would think that there might possibly be something in it, nothing less than chapter v. of Sir G. H. Darwin's popular book on tides would be of any use. There are too many important and pressing demands upon the space of NATURE to permit a full discussion of the points put forward by Mr. M'Lennan. We can only remark that the tides are due to the difference between the response of the oceans and the solid earth to the attractions of the sun and moon. The motion of the solid earth as a whole is determined by the forces at its centre, so that the differential motion of the oceans is determined by the vectorial excess of the forces at the earth's surface over those at its centre. Of this excess it is the component tangential to the earth's surface which is effective in producing the tides.
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