Where's earths death bulge, destroying everything in it's path? I was watching a BBC documentary on space last night.  It was talking about gravity, and it said that the reason we only ever see one side of the moon, is because the earths gravity is strong enough to actually stretch the moon into a longer shape, creating a 7m bulge on the moon.
This bulge travelled around the moon.  It was described on the documentary as something along the lines of, if you were there, you would see the ground make a 7m high wave as it rotated.  The bulge then acted a brake, and the moons spin slowly ground to a halt until where we are today when it's spin is very very slow so it looks like we only see one side.
So where is this giant death bulge tidal wave on earth?  Shouldn't we been seeing the ground rising up a few meters in relation to the suns position, demolishing and killing everything in its path?
I assume the documentary grossly simplified what actually happened, or I misunderstood!  I'm a physics noob, please go easy on me, chances are I'm not going to understand any formulas that use anything but addition or subtraction.
 A: It would be good if you read an article about tides, and the bulge the sun/moon combination makes on the earth, seas and crust. Earth tides are interesting,  the whole crust moves reaching 55 cms at places. 
A: We ARE/Have experienced slow down in the rotation of the earth on its axis just as the moon has.  We used to have ~18 hour days, now it is ~24 hours (give or take the remainder amount).
CITATION Colorado State Univ. (with other citations including notes on neap tides) http://asa.chm.colostate.edu/archive/evolution/199607/0052.html
As for the "death bulge" there is also about a 1 meter tidal bulge in the rock/solid part of the earth.
"The height of a tidal bulge on a planet is proportional to the inverse cube of the distance between the planet and the object causing the tidal bulge. The torque which slows down the planet is proportional to the inverse sixth power of the distance."  from here: http://www.exo.net/~pauld/physics/tides/tidalevolution.htm
And here is the citation from Ohio State Univ. http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast161/Unit4/tides.html
A: In the ocean, it's called the tides, and it happens twice a day. You can see it if you're standing on the seashore, but on the deep ocean it happens so gradually you wouldn't even notice it. On land the tidal bulge only rises up a third of a meter or so (not seven meters, because the moon's gravity is much less than the earth's), and, again, it happens so gradually we don't even notice it. I suspect that even the seven meter bulge on the moon would happen so gradually you wouldn't notice it, although I suspect (this is pure speculation) it would put some extra strain on the crust, but I don't know what effects that would cause.
UPDATE
I didn't even notice that you said "sun" and not "moon". The sun causes tides, too, but because the sun is so much farther than the earth, they're weaker than the moon's. From wikipedia, the moon causes 70% of the tidal forces and the sun causes 30% of the tidal forces. When they're lined up, you have especially high tides, called "spring tides," and when they're 90° from each other, you have especially low tides, called "neap tides." Since "neap" comes from old English, and is a word that only applies to tides, it's clear that sailors and fishermen have been noticing this for a long time.
A: Even if there was a 7 meter bulge that traveled around the earth. I don't think you could perceive it.  7 meters tapering off over 1000s of miles would not be visible, and each square mile of crust wont change in location much to the next square mile.
