/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9480887
The tendency for a mass to compress into a sphere is the most efficient method of storing energy and releasing said energy. Take a shitload of magnets and break them into bits and pieces and they will all form a denser and denser sphere. To make a sphere rectangular or a different shape would mean that an outside force would have to compress said sphere into said rectangular shape. That is more energy added to the equation, something that Occam's razor does not agree with.
Diamonds are flat, compressed and strong, but only in terms of a steady increasing pressure strength. Because of this they're also brittle and will shatter because it cannot store the energy of a strong change in force from multiple directions. Any faceted side will eventually wither down to a sphere and nature takes advantage of this law and uses the sphere to minimize energy loss. The faster it spins the more energy it loses and the flatter it becomes, like turning and throwing pizza dough.
This fact alone is why the earth and every goddamn planet is more or less a sphere. It's the most efficient way mother nature works.