Darren_Garrison:
Earlier in the thread I mentioned computer simulations suggesting that the moon could have formed at a distance of 25,000 km with a day on Earth lasting 6 hours. At that distance from the Earth, a lunar orbit is a little less than 11 hours. Those two numbers are pretty close–if the Earth had happened to spin a little slower, and the moon formed a little closer, the two figures could have matched, making the moon geosynchronous to the Earth. I’m trying to mentally model what would have evolved from those initial conditions. If Earth and the moon had become coincidentally mutually tidally locked very near the beginning, would they have remained that way (and that distance) from each other long term, or would some factor have broken the lock (and sent the moon spiraling outwards?)
Dear Darrenhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/26541355_The_Length_of_the_Day_A_Cosmological_Perspective
A tl;dr of this paper is to touch the index finger of your dominant hand to your lips and rapidly flip it back and forth while making that “bebebebebebebebe” sound.
When citing your own paper, it’s a good idea to mention the fact.