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by soliton4 1381 days ago
"If we take the moon's current rate of recession and project it back in time" is a very straight forward way of saying, lets assume the moon receeded from the earth at the current rate.
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snowwrestler 1381 days ago
No it’s not because you are projecting backward in time in the presence of a gravitational field that varies with square of radius.

The path of the moon away from the Earth is not a straight line, it is a tightly wound spiral.

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soliton4 1380 days ago
given your insight in the matter, would you care to post the correct calculation then?
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