SHAPE OF LIFE

It is fascinating to know that the land we are standing on is not a continuous flat surface rather it is a really big
round surface that stretches far and wide. The earth is shaped like an irregular ellipsoid or some say it is like a Geoid
though it is generally accepted that earth is a round sphere. The planets including earth are shaped round because
their gravitational field acts as though it originates from the center of the body and pulls everything toward it. With
its large body and internal heating from radioactive elements, a planet behaves like a fluid, and over long periods of
time succumbs to the gravitational pull from its center of gravity
Our planet is pudgier at the equator than at the poles and this is due to the centrifugal force created by the earth’s
constant rotation. Mountains rising up high and ocean trenches diving over deep as it could that further distort the
shape of the Earth. Sea level itself is even irregularly shaped because water takes shape on its vessel as we know it.
Slight variations in Earth’s gravity field cause permanent hills and valleys in the ocean’s surface relative to an
ellipsoid. The shape of the Earth is always changing. Sometimes this change is periodic, as is the case with daily tides
that affect both the ocean and the crust; sometimes the change is slow and steady, as with the drift of tectonic plates
or the rebound of the crust; and sometimes the shape of the planet changes in violent, episodic ways during events
such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, or meteor strikes.
The Wonder of the Earth is ever so beautiful, the creatures, the things, and the essences of it are all but a part of
something greater. Mysterious as it is,