Everything is (more or less) spherical

And what that says about the nature of our existence

It’s a fundamental property of objects under gravity (and objects in general)—they all take the path of least resistance.

In the vacuum of space, where the only force of any importance is gravity, all massive objects tend to collapse into a spherical shape towards their center. But they aren’t actually perfect spheres; they bulge outwards at the sides due to the centrifugal forces produced by their spin.

Not round. Spherical.

What is a sphere, anyway? It’s just a 3-dimensional solid, and the most energy efficient shape possible. Spheres have the smallest surface area to volume ratio of all shapes, and can fit the most material in their interiors.

In our reality, everything easy and nice and stable is spherical.

Sphere good.

The shape of life

If someone looked at everything happening in the world right now, with the pandemic and climate change and all that, how would it be shaped?

My guess is that it’d be an icosahedron—a not-so-round mesh of pointy triangles, trying to form a sphere. Humanity is in a really had place right now, but we’re trying.

You see, if we can somehow change life’s shape, make it more spherical, I think our problems would be solved.