Moon Debate

Our resident moon aficionado Josh Borovsky weighed in with a long winded post that was way too in depth to squeeze into the newsletter. So here’s a few highlights . . .

I think there is a misconception about the day of the full moon or new moon and the fish or game being more active.

What makes the full moon and new moon unique along with the three days before and after those events, is that those are the only days of the lunar cycle when moonrise or moonset will happen within 1.5 hours or less of sunrise or sunset.

So when you take these events and stack them together in a smaller window of time, it has the potential to intensify the window and make it more predictable. So it’s not a whole day of increased activity. It’s very small windows of time sometimes less than 15 minutes. And yes weather, the barometer, and other environmental factors play a bigger role.

I think it’s possible the moon and most life forms on earth are all connected in many deeper ways than any experiment has shown thus far.

One of the biggest things getting in the way is gravitational/moon cycles are not being accounted for in scientific experiments that otherwise control for various environmental factors in the laboratory.

There are millions of “controlled” experiments that have been done. But you can’t put a “control” on the moon and gravitational cycles. So every “controlled” experiment on living organisms that hasn’t accounted for the moon/gravitational cycles within it is essentially flawed. If every experiment done on any living creature took this into account, we would have a much deeper understanding of how it all connects.

If you look at the experiments that do pay attention to the the moon, the evidence is there.

A study in 1965, demonstrated that, in a laboratory with controlled water conditions and without the influence of ocean tides, crustaceans maintained a pattern of behavior and swimming consistent with the timing of the tides in the locale near where they had been collected. (So their behavior was influenced by the moon vs the tide itself.)

A 1985 study showed that the coral Pocillopora damicornis maintains its rhythm of reproduction according to the phases of the moon even inside a laboratory with a controlled environment.

There are also studies showing that the moon effects plants, zooplankton, insects, and birds. So basically the whole bottom of the food chain which affects everything else above it.

But, here’s the real kicker . . .

Even these experiments that look at the moon’s influence are only looking at the phase or rising and setting of the moon. It can be taken further. They do not pay attention to or account for the widely varying distance of the moon from earth and they should because that also matters!

Hopefully, in the future some scientific experiments can be designed to account for all these factors and variables!