The ambiguous title refers to our Moon's ' gravity lock' with Earth. Why do we see only one side of the Moon and its farside remains pointed away from our view? Astronomers will tell you ' we're in a synchronic relationship with our satellite. We're gravity locked, you see. This situation appears to be constant and unchanging.' No one questions the phenomena. No one dares consider that the Earth/Moon gravity-relationship may not be natural at all! We know of one other sync relationship in the solar system. Pluto's moon revolves in it's orbit exactly as Pluto rotates on its axis. In this particular situation, if you were on Pluto...the moon would appear forever motionless in the sky. That's it. All other normal, natural orbits between planets and their satellites decay or change over time. Artificial satellites fall back to the planet, eventually. There should be some change in our orbital relationship with the Moon...however minutely..over long stretches of time. What is natural should be Earthlings looking up and slowly seeing the farside of the Moon. But, this will never happen. The truth is: GRAVITY LOCK IS A MYTH. Gravity Lock is what experts say when they have no explanation; they go right along with accepted doctrines. Here are questions that the scientists cannot answer.
Why aren't all planets and satellites locked? Why is the Earth/Moon in this special relationship and not the majority of other cosmic bodies? Why won't this ' lock ' ever change and decay as in normal orbits?
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