Show THE OF THE TIDES what they tou of the growing crowing length orthe of tho DAY suit atod of the firth birth of the biloon Illo fitol a scientific point of view icv tho the work done by tho the tides tide 18 of kim it lite imps r linea ill helice in this allergy dent lit wal etith it which tile tho tides do their oak I 1 if tho the tail hidu OAK are rc caused Ou asid by tile tho moon the eleary they ehor aigist also be derived acm d front from the mean than loo laou plum es but I 1 ll 11 t iv is cot true title would it bo be true to that the finger of tho the nf lemar sailles bulb I 1 ibo b 0 ti lagger map tile tho energy w with till aich alic t it 0 title built t is Asur matea 7 01 cuu cuts J it buld not dot the aguerro LK in derived from the lie explosive of 0 tho the guati road anil abas polling nl liBa or of the ibe trigger Is 14 li gorely abra means toy by that ja Is liberated la its a oin cht fir nilar tho the tidal wave Ol by tho the moon is the tha means bore ft M a past of the energy stored jn in the ibo earth carth tt ss nui died to expand m mork let this ly IT it a comparison between lie 10 earth rotating on oa its axis and the lly fly theol of an all tho the ily chisol is a 4 tart t of into which the abo rigg biggings riggings ings pours pour its power it each of the ilia 0 ton o the variant ain ebin in m the moll acro ly draw off the ito gocr or from tho the store I 1 iu in tho the abo earth in a liko like a gigantic fly flywheel wheel heel from the eugate bhough attall connected with tho ilia pac times in tho the awl ju in that mighty uy fly heel a lity of 0 energy to i t rod up hold ft 4 lupei itou quantity juan tUy of cc ray would lio be given out before that fly ieli would conio come to rest rat the alio barths to 10 motion lit in the reservoir from bouce tifilca aidea the elonzy they for domi doing bonce I 1 it is fa that though aba taa 0 c alti oll ly y tho the moon bot ot whenever they clerzy thoy thor at draw w on the ho supply apy ready to hand in the iho rota lots iou of tho the earth tho the earth dafforn from tit alio ity fly v heel ol of I 1 tau 4 gano in a very impo raub binl axi ai lio ba is I 1 B withdrawn ith drav ri front from tho ihu oy jant by abe ho machines in the null so KO it t ui in restored li creto by tho the portor or of tho this todon engine A aud I 1 tho the 11 fly Y rise nm uniformly but the ibo earth s merely arely tile ity n ithone tho the it iron lion the work done by the iho tilleo 1 pun fry from theeart li that energy to Is fleca too it fOl hulas that bat tha th bullits rotation oa plant be decreasing this leads to a consequence of tile tho moat anent IN uon oil diar lorfel full jb it tolls iolla uto us the the peed with which rotates sial lut its fild Is r wo can state the r in ft a manner lich hu has tho the of en oud and brevity tile tho tides tiro ore in ibo of abo day at no doubt ibo of a tho NO tides la cli asip 1 ing 9 lj the 0 iani kueth 1 I of the X dy I 1 a tory v e emall ait A 0 a ay now ta not al st longer 7 the tonii ft I 1 y it hun jr 1 1 C can 5 nyo ar evon n in a the ibon nd DI years z thal change gc in abo length of A s lay ia only n fraction of but beta tr knee aria ell rot corn is t tb he fa act it hange hari ito allow though it in ia lies ic ai in AN tim the lay day ia 0 a cattle of olyean years that tha accumulated effect ac 0 1 nc s n not 0 t 0 only ul Y 1 but ON an III the f b e e ck a g 0 in t tha h i length of oc the day daymone raw evolve a corresponding conr capon d in s change jn in the too ilia of the moon it if the moon acts acta ON oh tie ito earth 0 so o conversely does doc tho ilia earth to ro ct upon tho njohn tho earth w A by tho the moon so 0 o it 16 strives to drive away il A persecutor at present tho the moon rovold round tho the earth at a distance of about tot two rit andred and forty thousand police uh the reaction of tho the baith tends to increase aint d latt Aucta and to force the magor to clohe in 10 an an orbit which is ja to larger cand larger As ai 0 y an tor roll aroll oil of tho the length of the duy In crese by second and tho the drganc of the moon ire greaves mile by milo mile A million ruil liou years ago tho the day probably contained smile ini less leas than our oar present day of ty f our hours our retrospect does not bit hero here i wo we at project our view bick back to in incredibly remote epoch croch which was A tuuli in abo history of our it hivo hi been at featt fifty ita million illion ag yg belamy have been very mis i M DH abo oc caun n bon ali moon wall waa born I 1 iho be length of the day was waa only it a very few houm if we call it three hours houra we ve abail not bo be far air iron from tho the truth yon nifty may think that thotis if on c looked back to a till earlier epoch the jr dry would become still ION ices and finally altogether I 1 this is ia however not tho the coho cabo tho the day can never have hato been much laa iwa than three hours hoan in tho the present order of thing L everybody knows knon that tho the earth in not sphere but there to a tit nt the equator so eo that fu as our school abool heel tell ua net the earth is ia shaped like an orange it is well known that this thia protuberance in IB doe dao to tho the rotation of the earth on its axia by Is lich bich the equatorial parts parta bulge out ly by l y cent rafts al force forca the quicker the earth total rotate ilia ibo greater is ij the protuberance if however tho the rate of rotation roLi atou exceeds A certain limit ilia iho equatorial port portions ious of the earth could no longer cling together tho the attraction which nul unites eft them would bo be overcome by centrifugal force nil nd a pan A cral breal breakup up would occur it coln be shown that the rota rotation tiou of the earth I 1 abon bon on tho the point of rapture corresponds to a length ol of the day about the critical vilno value of three hours which wo we have already i adopted it is therefore impossible a for UA im to suppose a day tau it borcom then th three too boom let ui boaro tho the earth for a few minutes and examine tho the past history of tha moon wo WIN have the moon revolve around tho the earth in an am ever widening orbit and consequently tho the ingon in ancient bognes must have been nearer tho the earth than it is u now yo no doubt tho the change is ia blow thoro is not much difference between tho the orbit of the laboon it a thousand years ao ago and nil the orbit in which the moon is now moving but n wo was rise anfio to million millio not of years the dif difference ferenc e becomes very appreciable I 1 thirty birty or for ty millions millio nj of years ar ago thi the moon was much closer to the earth than own it is in at present cry tho the in moon an then only half its ila present diu did tanco 0 ila 0 o am must ho however weier look still tiu earlier to a certain epoch not I 1 esto than fifty millions of loan oira ago no at that epoch the moon most have been no go close to the irth that iho two bodges were almost touching ever everybody body knows that tho the moon revolves now around the earth in a period of twenty seven daa tho rho period depends upon tho the di distancia dla tanca stancia between tho the earth and tit amoon Ine in earlier arber times the month mut bases boen been than our Tere mouth month I 1 luvino ao joica luns ul lassie 3 ebira ngu ago too mutu cc complete a 1 its y in it a week instead of tob tak ty look i mg m back a earlier bull bul wo we find the month has baa dwindled down to a day thou do down a to a I 1 few ew hours hour until that wondrous won epoch when h en the moon was almost touching tho the earth the moon apua around tho the marth earth once every three hoard bours la in them ancient times I 1 sea co our earth to I 1 bo be a boblo globe as it ib is at croL yet t it ib is ia not covered with occina and agia partly clothed with verdure the primo prime mil oil earth auise atoms rather a fiery and half 1 motion molten moss vallero no organic life can dwell instead of the iho atmosphere which wo we now have I 1 sec is a union san ie main of in ia alio isiola till the oceans of tile the earth are suspended as aj I 1 see ace that the noun un lilt jacb a anil oil sets beta to give tho the stio BUO ceda of day and of night aught but the day and faight only arra amount gannt to three loura hours instead of twenty four almost touching tilt tho chaotic value of tho the earth is a touch much smaller and aad equally clors chaotic otio body around the earth carth I 1 late this carmil body rapidly rotating tho the two to together gother an aa I 1 if they were acre bound by invisible binds bands abu Is mallor body bod is the moon attire |