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From the numbers you gave (planet and satellite of sizes comparable to Earth and Moon respectively, 7 years synodic month for the satellite) you cannot really infer the distance between the planet and the satellite and thence the magnitude of the tides.

The Moon is currently about 384000 km from Earth on average and is tidally locked to Earth; for a mutual tidal lock to take place the Earth would have to decelerate its rotation and the Moon would have to recede a lot, a process that would take tens of billions of years. The Moon is obviously not on a geosynchronous orbit and as it recedes from Earth it will be even less so (if you take the value of today's GSO, of course!). As Earth's (or any planet's) rotation slows down due to tidal braking, the GSO will get farther from the planet.

The distance between two mutually tidally locked bodies depends on the sum of their angular momentum, which cannot increase or decrease. You can start with any value within a broadly reasonable range. Angular momentum depends on mass and rotational speed, and a planet could conceivably end up with almost zero rotational speed after it has formed.

On to your question: I would think that, irrespective of the magnitude of the tides, their extremely low frequency would make them almost unnoticeable. We're talking about an acceleration vector that takes seven years to go around an Earth-sized planet.

From the numbers you gave (planet and satellite of sizes comparable to Earth and Moon respectively, 7 years synodic month for the satellite) you cannot really infer the distance between the planet and the satellite and thence the magnitude of the tides.

The Moon is currently about 384000 km from Earth on average and is tidally locked to Earth; for a mutual tidal lock to take place the Earth would have to decelerate its rotation and the Moon would have to recede a lot, a process that would take tens of billions of years. The Moon is obviously not on a geosynchronous orbit and as it recedes from Earth it will be even less so.

The distance between two mutually tidally locked bodies depends on the sum of their angular momentum, which cannot increase or decrease. You can start with any value within a broadly reasonable range. Angular momentum depends on mass and rotational speed, and a planet could conceivably end up with almost zero rotational speed after it has formed.

On to your question: I would think that, irrespective of the magnitude of the tides, their extremely low frequency would make them almost unnoticeable. We're talking about an acceleration vector that takes seven years to go around an Earth-sized planet.

From the numbers you gave (planet and satellite of sizes comparable to Earth and Moon respectively, 7 years synodic month for the satellite) you cannot really infer the distance between the planet and the satellite and thence the magnitude of the tides.

The Moon is currently about 384000 km from Earth on average and is tidally locked to Earth; for a mutual tidal lock to take place the Earth would have to decelerate its rotation and the Moon would have to recede a lot, a process that would take tens of billions of years. The Moon is obviously not on a geosynchronous orbit and as it recedes from Earth it will be even less so (if you take the value of today's GSO, of course!). As Earth's (or any planet's) rotation slows down due to tidal braking, the GSO will get farther from the planet.

The distance between two mutually tidally locked bodies depends on the sum of their angular momentum, which cannot increase or decrease. You can start with any value within a broadly reasonable range. Angular momentum depends on mass and rotational speed, and a planet could conceivably end up with almost zero rotational speed after it has formed.

On to your question: I would think that, irrespective of the magnitude of the tides, their extremely low frequency would make them almost unnoticeable. We're talking about an acceleration vector that takes seven years to go around an Earth-sized planet.

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From the numbers you gave (planet and satellite of sizes comparable to Earth and Moon respectively, 7 years synodic month for the satellite) you cannot really infer the distance between the planet and the satellite and thence the magnitude of the tides.

The Moon is currently about 384000 km from Earth on average and is tidally locked to Earth; for a mutual tidal lock to take place the Earth would have to decelerate its rotation and the Moon would have to recede a lot, a process that would take tens of billions of years. The Moon is obviously not on a geosynchronous orbit and as it recedes from Earth it will be even less so.

The distance between two mutually tidally locked bodies depends on the sum of their angular momentum, which cannot increase or decrease. You can start with any value within a broadly reasonable range. Angular momentum depends on mass and rotational speed, and a planet could conceivably end up with almost zero rotational speed after it has formed.

On to your question: I would think that, irrespective of the magnitude of the tides, their extremely low frequency would make them almost unnoticeable. We're talking about an acceleration vector that takes seven years to go around an Earth-sized planet.