@iceman
Jack, why do you say the moon has nothing to do with tides, despite the observational data that support that concept
Good question!
The moon being the cause of the tides is pure mythology. It is a dogma of the faith of scientism. You learn it as unquestionable truth at a shamefully tender age, and no dissent is allowed (as in most churches).
From that "given truth" established in childhood, correlation (extremely thin, I should add) is disingenuously/erroneously presented as causation as it often is in mythology.
If you evaluate the data critically you will find, as I have, that there is no causative correlation between the moon, sun, or any other light in the sky. The tidal nodes locations, their frequencies, amplitudes, and timings are all not connected to the lights in the sky. It was just a lie (or potentially, mistake) we were told as children, among MANY of them.
why would Newton have been anti-tide, what data was withheld to him, and by who?
Another great question!
In newtons time, much like today, the cause of the tides was unknown. It was only after newton invoked the philosophically unsound (and anathema to all of physics) and stupid epicurean gravity for his mathematical fiction that the concept of the moon causing the tides was born. Newton had the thought (of the moon causing tides) first, supposedly, and was a fantastically proud and disagreeable son of a bitch. It was his theory, and the idea that someone else would get the credit for his discovery irked him on a grand scale.
He had the idea, and the new mathematical framework to validate it (so he believed, anyhow) - but what he lacked was precise data on the moon in order to confirm the connection he expected to be there if gravity were in fact real, and the moon was as massive as was believed at the time.
The royal lunar observatory refused to share the data with him. It is my contention that had this data been shared, newton would have scrapped gravity entirely, and certainly the speculation that the moon was massive and caused the tides.