No, it really doesn't. It has cycles that gradually progress from morning to evening, meaning tides happen literally at any point.
You really do love spouting delusional BS don't you?
Your own statement contradicts itself.
You appeal to a gradual change, which just happens to coincide with a lunar cycle.
So no, tides aren't just happening at any point.
If they were happening at any point, without predictability, then you could have a high tide at 1 pm one day, and then the next day have it at 6 pm, then not have a high tide for the next few days, and so on.
Further, I checked. Rather than pulling the tides up, some of the most severe tides happen when the moon has set
You mean you further cling to your delusional BS where you entirely ignore how tidal forces work.
As already explained, the tidal forces act to draw the water away from Earth below the moon and the point opposite the moon.
New Moon (high tide): 2:43PM 5.25ft
High tide this day was twice, once before the sun rose, and once while it was up. Both high tides were before the moon rose.
So now you just spout a blatant lie?
How about a nice simple order of events?
Previous day
11:30 PM - Lunar midnight
11:47 PM - Solar midnight
Discussed day
04:53 AM - High tide
06:59 AM - Sun rise
07:35 AM - Moon rise
09:13 AM - Low tide
11:47 AM - Solar noon
12:11 PM - Lunar noon
02:43 PM - High tide
04:36 PM - Sun set
04:48 PM - Moon set
10:15 PM - Low tide
11:47 PM - Solar midnight
Next day
12:32 AM - Lunar midnight
We see that contrary to your absolute BS, we have a high tide when the sun and moon are high in the sky, and one when they are above the other side of Earth, and that the tide lags the moon, i.e. you have the moon overhead, then high tide.
Full Moon
And again, the order of events:
Previous Day
11:44 PM - Lunar noon
11:49 PM - Solar midnight
Discussed Day
04:48 AM - High tide
06:45 AM - Sun rise
07:21 AM - Moon set
09:46 AM - Low tide
11:50 AM - Solar noon
12:16 PM - Lunar midnight
03:22 PM - High tide
04:56 PM - Sun set
05:11 PM - Moon rise
10:26 PM - Low tide
11:50 PM - Solar midnight
Next day
12:28 AM - Lunar noon
We see that contrary to your absolute BS, we have a high tide when the sun and moon are high in the sky, and one when they are above the other side of Earth, and that the tide lags the moon, i.e. you have the moon overhead, then high tide.
The tides have vague progressive cycles, but it is all over the place regardless of the sun and moon.
You mean it doesn't match your delusional BS, your blatant misrepresentation of how the phases work.
But it matches the RE model quite well.
Lowest high tide seems to be a quarter moons, not either full or new moon.
Yes, just like you would expect.
The moon and the sun both exert tidal forces on Earth.
Under ideal conditions (i.e. Earth rotating slow enough for the water to catch up, the surface of Earth being entirely covered in a layer of water, with the solid surface below being entirely level, being on the equator, with the Earth, moon and sun in the same plane, and the moon and the sun remaining the same distance away), then:
The moon will produce a bulge directly below it, and 180 degrees away.
The sun will produce a bulge directly below it, and 180 degrees away.
That means that when the Earth, sun and moon are aligned (which occurs during a new moon and a full moon), you would get the largest tides (i.e. the highest high tide and lowest low tide), as the 2 bulges overlap.
And additional complications are the fact that the distance to both will vary.
It also means that when the sun and moon are 90 degrees apart when viewed from Earth (which occurs at a quarter moon) you get the smallest tides.
And between, they go out of phase, with a high tide and low tide somewhere in between.
Here is a link to an example:
https://www.desmos.com/calculator/qytvkerxxcBut because It isn't all nice and ideal, with you looking at a place away from the equator, when the sun is not above the equator, and instead varies from 19.75 degrees south to 15.5 degrees south, and the moon varies from 22.5 degrees south to 19.75 degrees north, and you picked a location that is 42.5 degrees north.
So it will be far from perfect.
This is not causation. This is not even correlation. This is a wife's tale.
It most certainly is correlation.
We find the highest tides occur during new moons and full moons.
And gravity provides the cause.
Conversely, you have no explanation at all, nor can you provide any kind of alternative.
Whenever "tidal bulge" happens due to the moon, on the opposite side of the planet you also have a bulge.
i.e. you know you are spouting pure BS, but you don't care, because you don't care about the truth. All you care about is propping up your delusional fantasy.
And you can't show a single fault with the actual model, so you need to repeatedly misrepresent it.
If this bulge was really real (and not just unequal water levels), at all times half of the Earth would be at high tide (or to put it better, 2 quarters of the Earth).
And more delusional BS.
It wouldn't be 1/4 of Earth at high tide, with the next quarter at low tide, with a massive step at the boundary.
Instead, it would be a smooth transition.
Look between Africa and Madagascar, Australia and New Zealand, South America and Africa. Tide appears to be a subset not of the moon but of proximity to other land, especially shallows between lands. But then he points out several in closed off areas. So I'll watch the movie.
And more delusional BS.
Yes, it is complex, because the Earth's solid surface is not entirely level, so the water can't freely flow around Earth to produce the required tides. Lands get in the way, making it much more complex.
Remember I talked about water moving through a wall? Water moves around such spots, and this controls how high or low tides flow.
Again, What is making the water move?
The only alternatives to the moon your crackpot gave was a sea creature which should be far more variable, or plate tectonics, which means the only significant tides should be tidal waves from Earthquakes.
For the record, he shows what tide lines should look like if it were the moon causing things.
You mean he shows a blatant misrepresentation of it, which is clearly pure BS as it shows a high tide directly over land.