Q: 2.6 — Proof of Gravity and the Spherical Shape of Celestial Bodies
Gravity is a force that pulls matter towards the centre of mass equally in all directions. This is why large celestial bodies — planets and stars — form into a spherical shape, because a sphere is the shape in which gravity is balanced from all directions.
We see this with the Moon, Mars, Venus, and every planet depicted in history: they are all spherical. If gravity shapes every large celestial body in the universe into a sphere, why would it exclude Earth alone?
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