Perhaps you could name something known about the nature of the earth's core, and tell me how that knowledge was got, by what means it was verified, and by whom. Speculative ideas however sophisticated are not synonymous with scientific knowledge. Surely we must have real knowledge, not conjecture, about the earth's core, before we can begin to speculate, on the basis of such understanding, about the influence which the moon might theoretically exert upon it. Otherwise we are making wild conjectures on the basis of things which are themselves speculative in nature, an activity quite divorced from reality however stimulating to the intellectual imagination.