>The earth is a sphere. A sphere made of solid rock [...] The earth is NOT a solid rock. It's a very thin layer of rock, floating on top of a pool of magma, it

>The earth is a sphere. A sphere made of solid rock [...] The earth is NOT a solid rock. It's a very thin layer of rock, floating on top of a pool of magma, itself floating in space. The rock itself flows on all sorts of time scales as well. A sphere will be forced by the wind, almost the same amount as any other object, regardless of its density or weight.