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Is there any instance of a sphere in nature, as in any surface equidistant from a point?

The sun, for example is not a sphere, nor is earth, even though both are smoother than a billiard ball.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 years ago
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    The Earth and the Sun are both "oblate spheroids" - no large body can be perfectly regular.

    When you look at quantum objects they do not HAVE a shape, they have a volume of probability. So the electron can never be a sphere.

    No, if you require perfection there is not one sphere in the entire Universe because quantum fluctuations are everywhere.

  • G0rdi
    Lv 6
    6 years ago

    It depends what degree of variation from perfection you will accept.

    Earth, the Sun and other planets are very close to being spheres. Black Holes and Neutron Stars are almost exactly spheres to within perhaps the width of an atom or two.

  • Guru
    Lv 4
    6 years ago

    electron is perfect sphere. and if earth and sun are not sphere what is your definition of sphere, because they both fit in current definition of shere including billiard ball

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