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| author | Holmes, Garrick |
| author_facet | Holmes, Garrick |
| contents | <p>**Abstract**</p> <p> </p> <p>The standard attribution of Earth's tidal dissipation budget assigns 94.6% of the total 3.7 TW to the oceans, which constitute 0.023% of the planet's mass. This produces a per-kilogram dissipation ratio of 76,100 to 1 between the ocean and the solid Earth. No first-principles derivation from known physics produces this ratio. The solid Earth — including a convecting liquid iron outer core of 2.27 × 10²⁴ kg that sustains a planetary-scale magnetic dynamo at terawatt energy scales — is treated as nearly inert with respect to tidal dissipation. This note argues that the attributed split is not physically justified and that analogous anomalies at Ganymede and Enceladus point to a systematic failure in how tidal energy coupling to planetary interiors is understood. Empirical and experimental evidence research institutions in France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Italy, Belgium, and pan-European agencies independently confirms each claim: the total dissipation budget is well constrained, the interior attribution is not derived from first principles, the same unresolved coupling appears at all three bodies, and the mathematical framework chosen materially changes the computed answer.</p> |
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| publishDate | 2026 |
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| spellingShingle | **TIDAL DISSIPATION AND THE INTERIOR COUPLING PROBLEM: AN UNRESOLVED ANOMALY ACROSS PLANETARY BODIES** Holmes, Garrick <p>**Abstract**</p> <p> </p> <p>The standard attribution of Earth's tidal dissipation budget assigns 94.6% of the total 3.7 TW to the oceans, which constitute 0.023% of the planet's mass. This produces a per-kilogram dissipation ratio of 76,100 to 1 between the ocean and the solid Earth. No first-principles derivation from known physics produces this ratio. The solid Earth — including a convecting liquid iron outer core of 2.27 × 10²⁴ kg that sustains a planetary-scale magnetic dynamo at terawatt energy scales — is treated as nearly inert with respect to tidal dissipation. This note argues that the attributed split is not physically justified and that analogous anomalies at Ganymede and Enceladus point to a systematic failure in how tidal energy coupling to planetary interiors is understood. Empirical and experimental evidence research institutions in France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Italy, Belgium, and pan-European agencies independently confirms each claim: the total dissipation budget is well constrained, the interior attribution is not derived from first principles, the same unresolved coupling appears at all three bodies, and the mathematical framework chosen materially changes the computed answer.</p> |
| title | **TIDAL DISSIPATION AND THE INTERIOR COUPLING PROBLEM: AN UNRESOLVED ANOMALY ACROSS PLANETARY BODIES** |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19052024 |