appulsing

Updated: May 2, 2025

Of the previous history of these appulsing suns the theory gives us no account; they are simply supposed to arrive within what may be called an effective tide-producing distance, and then the drama begins. Tides always go in couples; if there is a tide on one side of a globe there will be a corresponding tide on the other side.

Garrett Putman Serviss - Curiosities of the Sky