Jonathan Silverlight wrote:

I would have thought that on the theory most here are defending
(without the benefit of a schoolboy's primer may I add) the moon would
have tidal mountains and hills.

That's an odd way of putting it, but it does. If you took the trouble to
learn anything at all about the subject, you would find that the Moon's
shape is permanently deformed from a spherical shape. Look at
http://www.astronomycafe.net/qadir/q277.html for instance. Because the
Earth has 81 times the mass of the Moon it has not yet stopped rotating
relative to the Moon, so the bulge moves round the planet.

And pray tell why they are not quadurnal. They are not even diurnal. If
the moon can raise the tides twice a day, surely the earth can do one
better?

Do you understand the laws of physics by any chance? What does the word
physics mean to you?