The Sun currently produces one-third of the Earth’s tides. Thanks to the tidal transfer of momentum, the Sun has pushed the Earth slowly outward, meaning the Earth used to be closer, even in the conventional models of Solar System formation. Not sure where the Earth was supposed to have been when the supposed Mars-sized impactor bashed into it.
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I'm just a novice about these things, but doesn't the Sun suck the Earth towards it, while the Earth attempting to continue in a straight line causes it to orbit the Sun. So the Earth moves slowly outward despite the Sun's attempt to suck it in? Ergo, no pushing on the part of the Sun, although the Earth's momentum is the reason it's moving slowly outward. Same as the situation between the Earth and the Moon.
Well, any cook knows the right amount of stirring makes all the difference in some recipes. Maybe it takes two stirrers for some recipes to work. We don’t know, yet...
Merry Christmas, happy New Year. And keep keeping us up to date- on those years of long ago.
Is that exactly 1/3?
I’d guess the relations of moon to life would have a lot to do with whether life originated in tidal flats or in and around hydrothermal vents in the ocean.