Bjarne, we have been trough tidal forces two years ago. What is your point?
The Tidal effect is slowing the Earth's rotation at a rate of 2.2 seconds per 100.000 years.
This mean the rotation at the surface (by the equator) of the Earth after 100.000 years is 1014 meter slower per 24 hour than today.
Due to the influence due to RR the Earth rotation is losing 7.61*10-13 meter per second.
After 100.000 years this is
only 2.4 meter slower.
Well the Earth rotation is also "paying" for kinetic "lost" of the Moons orbit speed, - this is about 10 times so large as the lost due to the RR that affect the Earth rotation, (too lazy to calculate it now) - so all together only few percent is misunderstood by the prevailing understanding
There is plenty of space for RR.
Don't underestimate that.
Correction
After realizing that Relativist Resistance also was the cause of ice ages, I thought an object moving opposite the absolute motion direction would accelerate. This is wrong, the first impression and statement is correct.
This becomes very clear after paying a little attention to outer object such as Sedna. -I will come back to this ASAP.
A little point is also that RR creates its own perigee or perihelion precession period. These will off course interact with perbutation precession periods, if any.
The last ½ year I was not so sure how big a role the space-wind would play, but I am back to the first impression that claims, that it is a equalizing force.
But this have long seen to be a bit complicated, but now easier as I thought
What happens can be read below.
We don't know really what mass attraction is.
According to this theory it is "lack of space density" - which mean a space vacuum.
When two astronomic objects absorbs space from the same area between each other, space in that specific area will attract the objects, simply because the planets attacks the space density.
We can say that that tension of space in that area occurs, and this is what we in centuries have expressed as "a mass-attraction force".
Imaging that the Moon was landed on the Earth and that a rocket would try to pull the Moon away from the Earth. The rocket (if strong enough) would not only pull the Moon, but at the same time also the Earth. It would require larger force (more than 7,3*E23 N.) only to pull the Moon away from the Earth.
Between the rocket and the Moon there is a wire that make it possible for the rocket to pull the Moon. Also the gravity-mass-attraction between the Earth and the Moon
is also part of scenario.
Even if the moon not was touching the Earth,
still the rocket would also
pull the Earth, not only the Moon.
If we now assume the Moon is back in it's orbit, the attraction force that affect the Moon has now decreased to 2*E20 N ("only 3700 times less) ,- which mean that a weak pull (acceleration) of the moon still force the Earth to follow.
Hence the orbit of the Moon also is affected through that force-connection.
So we can certainly conclude that the FORCE between the Earth and the Moon is real, which
must mean that when the angular motion of a random moon
is faster than the rotating of it's mother planet, - this must cause the planet-rotation to accelerate.
If the opposite is the case , which mean when the angular motion of a random moon
is slower than the rotating speed of the moons mother planet, the planet is forced to give off kinetic energy and force moons further away from the planet. Rotation of the planets will simply feel the resistance from the mass-attraction-connection - like "friction".
And off course the exact same pattern must be seen by star / planet systems.
This mean that the moon Phobos is pulling Mars rotation, Adrastea and Metis is pulling Jupiter's rotation, - Mimas is pulling Saturn's Rotation. 11 inner moons is pulling Uranus rotation, 5 inner moons is pulling Neptune's rotation. The other outer moons have the opposite effect, these are slowing the planets and hence thrown further outwards.
So on the one hand all the moons (that are faster as the planet rotation) pulls
the planet rotation , hence these moons are slowly losing kinetic energy.
Hence these are doomed and thus slowly falling towards the planet.
In that process the planet gains
rotation speed.
On the other hand, all the slower outer moons are forced further away from the planets, because the mass attraction-connection is off course working both way.
Seen from Venus, all the outer planet are retrograde "moons" - (this is how Venus is effected) , and these (especially the Earth) hence pulls Venus rotation retrograde. (Venus is faster)
Mercury's rotation is bound by the gravity connection of the Sun, which too is therefore not a mystery.
The only exception is the Earth.
The Earth should not rotate so fast as it does, because the angular orbit speed of our Moon is relative slow, so our Moon cannot explain the fast Earth rotation, - but it is not a problem, but naturaly...
This theory claims that the Earth recently had 2 moons (like Mars) one of these was fast. Because of lost of kinetic energy it was smashing into the Earth. The lost of that moon was probably the cause of 90% of all live on earth was eliminated for 65 million years ago. -It was probably not a meteor but a moon that was smashing into the Earth.
To fully understand all this, it is off course necessary also to understand that relativistic Resistance also applies by constant speed, - not only by acceleration.
http://www.science27.com/english/the_pioneer_anomaly.html