Wasted
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Believe it or not, when water finds its level, it does not form a straight line. Because the Earth is curved, and gravity pulls in objects from all directions, water will be affected by these, and since water canโt be perfectly level unless all sides of it are being equally affected by gravity, bodies of water will always have a curve to them. Based on the area that the water takes up, that curve may be indistinguishable from a straight line (a glass of level water is considered straight, but the oceans are not).
Now, some of the skeptics may be saying โgosh, well what about the oceans? They are curved, but they canโt be level because they are always making waves, which means that there is an unequal pull on them as a whole! โ Well, youโre not wrongโฆ
If the sun and moon didnโt exist. Because the moon is so close to the Earth, and the sun is so massive, they have slight gravitational affection to the Earthโs tides, causing waves, and an unequal distance from the top of the high waves, and the top of the lower waves, from the center of Earthโs gravitational pull. Take out these two forces (and any others from other planets), and the tides would be perfectly still, meaning they would be level.
So really, you canโt actually ask this question and get any reasonable answer. Waterโs level is dependent on the shape of Earthโs gravitational field,
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