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The Moon, and what it was assumed to be doing

The lunar material sits off the reading path. The piece that does real work is a test on the earthquake question, and it is argued there.

Where it went

The magnetotail test, and the tilt.

The monthly passage through the magnetic tail is an earthquake question, and it is argued as one.

The Moon crosses the Earth's magnetic tail once a month, geomagnetic activity has been measured running a few per cent low before full moon and a few per cent high after, and tidal stress has a published relationship with earthquakes. The discriminator falls out of that: gravity predicts a symmetric month, the magnetotail predicts a lopsided one, and a flat residual kills it. Earthquake prediction →

The steadying of Earth's tilt is a phase of the present arrangement rather than a law, and one leading model of the Moon's origin has the young Earth tipped about seventy degrees over. The claim →

Olivine is centrosymmetric, space group Pbnm, so it is not piezoelectric. The figures →

The dielectrophoresis and tribocharging work is a minerals-separation method rather than an argument about the Moon, and it belongs with the mineral-sands lane.