Spheres

Gravity.

Gravity molds it into that shape

Gravity

>>8938811
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>>8938815
most compact shape

>>8938811
gravity spins shit

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>>8938811
>proton, neutron
Legit question, how come proton and neutron are spherical if they're composed of 3 quarks who are inself spherical?

Seems like spheres for subatomic particles are just representation and not really how they look like.

People think that atoms are spheres, until Rutherford proved otherwise, atoms are proton and neutron nucleus with electron orbits. Then people think proton and neutrons are spheres until the discovery of quarks

>>8938811
In short because all of those things are subject to inverse squared potentials and the principle of minimal action.

>>8938811
>why are they all spheres??
>not ellipsoids

>>8938861
first of all, we have no goddamn clue what subatomic particles look like, they are completely invisible to the best microscopes in existence, the smallest thing we can "see" is individual atoms and electrons don't orbit by the way

>>8938811
A perfect sphere has uncountably many symmetries.

>>8938861
They are closer to dimond shapes (although not quite) aren't they? Because they "bleed" into each other.

>>8939189
so does a cone.

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what if I tell you that there every sphere is perfect and there are no perfect spheres in reality?

what if I tell you that in reality every sphere is a toroid?

why you ask? because it is the only way to map a sphere in two dimensions

It's just a consequence due to the Isotropy of space. If there is no preferred direction in space then gravity will act the same in all directions. Imagine this: you have an amorphous chunk of clay, then you have a way to push inwards every point in the clay surface at the same time with the same force, what figure you will get? now imagine the same, but this time you can push a little harder at the top and the bottom, this is the "same" situation if there was a preferred direction in space, lets say "z" if we put some set of coordinates. if in our universe the z direction were the preferred direction every planet, stars and your mom would be this egg shaped monsters.

>>8938811
There are no perfect spheres in nature.