Stars are spheres
Planets are spheres
Atoms are spheres
Butts? Well, those are just two spheres.
Why so many spheres?
Makes you think.
Edit: Fuck I made an orb pondering meme without even trying
yeah well explain GALAXIES
those look like disks to me, but I don't know maybe I'm just not an expert in big shapes like you are
A lot of galaxies are spherical. Roughly, so - they're called elliptical galaxies. And while it's pretty complicated, as you might imagine, galaxies tend to become elliptical, as galaxies grow via cannibalization. And even disc-like spiral galaxies are still spherical when you consider the dark matter, which is every bit as much a part of a given galaxy as its stars are.
Galaxies wants to be spherical but the giant invisible hand of the free market keeps pressing them flat.
it's not one big object it's lots of objects so it behaves differently duh
Well, that can be said of just about anything, depending on what scale you're looking at it from.
Ok, then saying "it’s not one big object it’s lots of objects so it behaves differently" can literally apply to anything. You can say that about a galaxy, a star system, a planet, a rock, a person, a cell, even an atom. So no offense, but the above is a non-answer. (Unless you were just joking, in which case, apologies for missing it).
They're working in becoming spheres and just haven't gotten there yet
very old galaxies aren't disks anymore usually but blobby spherical regions, afaik
Maximum volume, minimal surface area.
You're getting the most ass mass per sqr cm of ass skin
What is the most perfect non-quantum sphere?
The surface of a neutron star slowed down after it has pulsed its last pulse seems a likely candidate. We know of a few thousand neutron stars and yet we estimate there are 200-300 million out there in the Milky Way. When they stop spinning they become practically invisible until they start feeding on something.
Wouldn't the event horizon of a non spinning black hole be a better contender?
Neutrons still decay on the surface of all but the absolute largest of neutron stars, so that would perturb the sphericalness a bit. I have no idea how much energy is being released at the surface of a black hole's event horizon in the form of virtual particles comparatively.
Bit beyond my ken.
I think it's exceptionally small. Waiting for a black hole to fizzle out from Hawking radiation is projected to take longer even than the heat- life & death of the universe
This thing's a pretty good sphere: https://www.nist.gov/si-redefinition/kilogram/kilogram-silicon-spheres-and-international-avogadro-project
Stars are technically just gas giant planets that got too big.
Atoms aren't really spheres, it's hard to even explain their shape.
Not even the elementary particles are perfect spheres, nor can they be. They all are part of a single force separated only because of how cool the universe became.
The electron is the most spherical of the elementary particles; however, the electroweak force combines electromagnetism and the weak force. During the electroweak epoch - before EM and the Weak force separated - the electron did not exist. Don't believe we have even mapped the physics at that temperature 10^25 Kelvin which is double CERN's record at the LHC.
I always search for course notes when I want an overview, try this:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cosmology+notes&t=vivaldi&ia=web
Once you get down to that size, the concept of a concrete barrier between area taken up by a thing and area not taken up by that thing kind of breaks down, doesn’t it?
There's just a bunch of overlapping fields and atoms are just interference patterns that form on those fields
Or maybe tiny vibrating strings
Congratulations on this realization. Here's your complementary physics degree.
It can be a sphere with many handles. Or Klein bottle. Or a projective plane. Or some connected sum shit.
This is ten thousand (:10000-com:) times more coherent and accurate and deep than the Lorenz curve post.
I delve into forbidden knowledge and ponder-is it possible to become orb?
Spheres are the optimal three-dimensional shape, and the most beautiful. I realized this once while tripping really hard on mushrooms.
the universe is a sphere but most galaxies are discs (warning: pondering this may be dangerous to the untrained)
