Misconceptions Of Moon's Influence

By Chris Cornell
During the ancient days, humans were not very informative, having little or zero knowledge about their surrounding occurrences, including the moon influence into human's lives. They thought that the lunar force originating from the moon is strong but in fact it is just a minor tidal pull. Scientific studies have proven that a child in the mother's embrace will exert twelve million times as much of tidal force compared to the moon. However the old conventional mentality has not been completely wiped off as some people still hold onto the belief that the moon's lunatic haul is capable of causing earthquakes, which is rather absurd from the view of the science facts. As a matter of fact, none of the objects - the Sun or moon has the capability of pushing powerful forces onto the Earth.

It may be known fact that there is moon influence onto the tidal waves of the sea but it is never logic to make it applicable on human body. Those who claim this support their saying with the point that human body is mostly occupied by water hence the force should affect human's behavior as well. This is erroneous and has no scientific proofs. A valid explanation is that the moon affects the Earth's unbounded collection of water surface but water in the human body is completely covered, it is totally ridiculous to say the moon can direct the force through the skin into the body then impinge on the human's individual character.

Besides, the misconception is detected as the force from the moon influence comes from the distance, not affected by the phase. The moment of perigee, where the moon is situated closest to the Earth can happen at any time of the phase and higher tides are caused by the position of the Earth, moon and Sun. This is because strong tidal forces are exerted and these forces are a combination of the moon's and the Sun's, not entirely the contribution of the moon. There was a book by Arnold Lieber who commented that the catastrophic earthquake caused by the moon's force yet there was no such happenings. Although he did a prediction of an earthquake in California, everything that happened was not of what he derived to be.