The fact that the Moon’s Face is the side of the orb that always shows itself to the Earth is a phenomena that appears to have never been explained. A simple statement that the rotation takes roughly 28 days; thereby, strangely equaling the time to orbit our planet seems too farfetched to be chance. The odds against this “just happening” was too hard for me to swallow.
When you look at the rotation to orbit patterns of other bodies that we can observe, you do not see this kind of accuracy. After all, Earth only moves 1/365th (approximately) around the Sun per day. Mercury, Venus, Mars, and so on, all display rotation to orbit patterns similar to Earth’s. No planetary body in our solar system follows the Moon’s unusual pattern with regard to the Sun. As a matter of fact, our solar system exhibits an earthlike rotation to orbit pattern with our galaxy.
At this point, I will admit that I have not researched other moons in our solar system to see if our Moon’s pattern is common among planet-orbiting bodies. For all I know, this happens to every moon. Maybe moons only show one side, if you will, to their parent planet. A possible common attributed that should be looked into. Maybe you are the one to find out. If you do, please tell me what you find. Heck, you might win a Noble Prize.
In the above picture, you see the Moon’s interior as NASA currently presents it. You will notice the crust surrounding a hot, molten center without a hard core. This lack of a hard core makes sense with regard to the Moon’s extremely weak electromagnetic field and its very thin (barely there) atmosphere.
This above representation of the Moon’s interior appears like any other planet’s interior. However, there are some problems with this type of interior. First, there is not a corresponding electromagnetic field and atmosphere to go with it. With a core in the middle, the Moon would probably be generating a stronger magnetic field as a result of a dynamo effect. Second, Albert Einstein once used the stirring of a cup of tea to describe an effect he was trying to opine about. While his demonstration does not apply in point to this topic, it does help to argue that a core as we normally know them is not in the Moon. Albert used the scenario to show what happens to heavy matter in a vortex. He said, if you stir tea in a cup, the leaves will gather together in the center. Despite the thought that the material would succumb to centrifugal force and end up in the outer areas of the cup, it works. Just try it.
With that in mind, it is simple to see how a body rotating at a fast rate could form a core in the middle that is made up of the heaviest material in the molten middle. However, the Moon is not rotating at any rate of speed even close to that which is displayed by planets. This high rotational rate would be needed to center up the heavy material. Does that mean that the Moon does not have any material in its molten center that is heavier than the other molten matter. Possibly, and if so, the phenomena is almost totally solved. I don’t think this is where it ends.
I believe that the heavy material has gathered together; but, the rotational speed of the Moon has been too slow to cause the tea leaf effect to take place. I think it is more likely that the heavy material has surrendered to the forces of centrifugal force and is clumped in mass on the interior wall of the proverbial Dark Side of the Moon. This added weight on that side would then cause the Moon to follow the limits of physical law as it pertains to centrifugal force. The far side of the Moon is weighted and therefore never shows itself to us.
I encourage your feedback. My e-mail address is arthurryan@comcast.net.
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