Sun has a large gravitational force which keeps the solar system intact? Right?

My question is if sun has such a large gravitational force why can't it pull its own atoms of Hydrogen and Helium to get condensed like those of other planets and not form another planet?

Being bossy around other planets and setting its own particles and atoms free in gaseous form doesn't impress me to the least.

Sun is democratic to its own particles but authoritarian towards the others like Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars etc?

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ButterRobot · 51-55, M

its because the gravitational collapse of the sun is balanced out by the internal pressure pushing out.

I think your anthropomorphising the solar system a bit too much lol

TheOrionbeltseeker · 36-40, M

@ButterRobot Haha, yes. But if it exactly balances the particles from going out as well as sinking in, then how does it'd effect get an overreach to planets?

For ex-one negative is able to balance one positive so there is nothing left. Then how are the planets still revolving the solar system time indefinite?

ButterRobot · 51-55, M

@TheOrionbeltseeker well its not quite the case that particles out exactly balances particles in. The solar wind is particles being sent out from the sun. Secondly, we are discussing forces - not particles. The theory of gravity is that a large mass (ie. the Sun) warps spaces and that is what makes the planets stay in their orbit.

newjaninev2 · 56-60, F

@TheOrionbeltseeker Since Einstein we’ve been able to understand that gravity isn’t a ’thing’ in its own right... it isn’t something that the Sun ’sends out'

Put simply... mass bends space-time, and spacetime shows mass how to move. The large mass of the Sun warps spacetime, which is what keeps the planets orbiting.

ButterRobot · 51-55, M

@newjaninev2 ☝️ this.

TheOrionbeltseeker · 36-40, M

@ButterRobot unable to keep its own mass/particles/atoms/molecules together? F= (G * M1* M2) / R²

sun has also got its core which could be considered M1, other particles as M2 and distance between them is dispropotionately lesser than the other planets.

ButterRobot · 51-55, M

@TheOrionbeltseeker Not really sure what you're getting at...