Was looking at a NASA image of the sun and thought, huh, why wouldn’t it just be a chaotic blob? Pls help
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Because laws of physics like spheres.
Put a drop of oil in the water. It will form a circle. Maybe not a perfect one but you can clearly see a circle.
Water droplets on the table will also form a half-circle while the bottom touching the table is flat. Even if the shape is irregular, you can always see rounded edges if you look close enough.
Freely suspended liquids always form a sphere if not affected by other forces.
The reason for this is quite simple, yet fascinating to me – out of all geometrical shapes in the world, the sphere has the smallest volume and surface given the same width and height.
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