The infamous "spherical cow" approximation strikes again, but with a feline twist. In physics, we routinely commit mathematical atrocities by reducing complex objects to perfect spheres just to make the math tractable. Sure, your cat might have legs, a tail, and a personality that defies Euclidean geometry, but in our equations? Perfect sphere. Next week: frictionless cats on perfectly flat surfaces. The differential equations practically solve themselves.
Physicists Be Like: Spherical Approximations

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