Thought of something yesterday while on the treadmill at the gym... normally, when you walk outside, the ground is still and you are moving. On the treadmill, you are still and the ground is moving. Yet, you get the same workout... in a universe of motion, everything is moving so one cannot think in terms of still vs. moving, but just the ratio between motions. Larson talks about this frequently, regarding electric current--is the electron flowing through the wire, or is the wire flowing around the electron. Answer is "both."
Looking at the "moon" problem,
what if... the moon ISN'T orbiting the Earth, but something from the Earth is pushing it around in an orbit, like some invisible arm reaching out and whacking it? When you want to swing a ball around your head on a string, YOU have to do the work--not the ball. So, started thinking about what situations in the RS could cause such an effect... which would also have to account for tidal forces.
In the old days of aether, orbits were attributed to a spinning vortex, that carried things around in it (like Larson's whiskers spinning down the drain when he pulled the plug after shaving). But if that were the case, it would be unlikely we would have ocean tides as the effect would be distributed equatorially (current explanation of tidal force is total nonsense... see Miles Mathis' paper
The Trouble with Tides for all the gory details).
The answer I came up with was from Nehru's sunspot work, which I later applied to the Earth in "
At the Earth's Core":
thredules.
Thredules are in the ultra-high (3-x) speed range, 1-dimensional (linear), meaning they work like a "repulsor beam" (which is why solar flares shoot OUT of the sun)--except the "beam" is a
bivector, meaning it shoots out in opposite directions, not just on one side.
If planets and moons produce this bidirectional repulsor ray from their cores, rotating about the poles like the beam from a lighthouse--with antigravity properties, as it approached another body that repulsive effect would try to push it away, in two fashions: radially outward and circumferentially forward. The "radial" component would only push far enough until the gravitational attraction of the body being pushed canceled it out--at which point, it would stay at that distance. The push to the side would case the body to move in a circular, orbital pattern at the same rate the "lighthouse beam" was rotating.
Regarding tides... something the old farmers knew was that ground water has "tides" as well--the tides don't stop at the ocean, they continue underground. This is how they determine when to plant seeds--want to get the seed in the ground so when "high tide" comes, it gets plenty of moisture to germinate. The only difference is they consider the "time of day"--plants need sun to grow, so you have to catch the high tide at dawn.
If the Earth is emitting a "repulsor ray," tides would be a natural consequence of it, as water moves easier than rock, so rather than the moon pulling, the Earth is pushing. And the force would be stronger on the lunar side, because the Moon is doing it too--so there will be a stronger repulsor ray between the Earth and Moon, than on the other side of the Earth from the moon.
Point being that one cannot look at a universe of motion from a static observation point. Everything must be considered moving with respect to everything else, so I would think the ratios of motion (magnitude of speed, in/out direction and dimensions of motion involved) would be the key.