If you follow this back, you’ll see that markie is trying to draw an analogy between the Earth-Moon system and his beloved orbitspheres and pancake electrons in atoms and ions.
Of course tides do have an effect, just that they have essentially no noticeable effect on the orbits, over a month, year, or even decade time frame, in the Earth-Moon system.
In a hydrogen, or deuterium, atom, or a singly ionized helium (3 or 4), markie might make this analogy. However, these composite particles can change on much faster timescales than the Earth-Moon system can, let’s say ~10-15 s. And over ~1015 orbits, say, the Earth-Moon tides are anything but “tiny perturbations”!
But how is the Earth like a nucleus? An electron like the Moon?
If you recall, it was RC who protested Mills equation of motion for the orbitsphere, as RC said that it describes the equation of motion for an point like object obeying an inverse squared force relationship with a centre. I merely tried to show that the same formula applies not only to a point but to a spread out object.
Now you seem to be inferring that Mills' orbitsphere should be producing tidal effects. No it shouldn't, because the mass of the orbitsphere is evenly distributed as a spherical shell.
Both nuclei and electrons have spin, a quantum property which no doubt has a magical explanation in GHCTP (or whatever it’s called), thus making the Earth-Moon system a poor analogy; and all nuclei - except that of H - have some non-spherical asymmetry (sorta the equivalent of the Earth’s equatorial bulge), leading to questions about how the equivalents of tides affect observed properties (markie seems unaware of this aspect of his analogy).
Well of course the analogy is limited in its application. It was meant to address only a simple problem RC had with the equation of motion.
Mills must take into account many factors to get (say) the ionization energies correct. You are correct that he hasn't taken into account the non spherical geometries of more complex nuclei, which would contribute a very small effect. As I recall, he plans to flesh out the nuclei structure at a later time when he has more time.
