The real question is, barring negligible and irrelevant surface tension artifacts of minuscule surfaces, what is the measured and measurable shape of waters surface at rest?

Bubbles are often spherical - does that prove the shape of the gas? The logic you are trying to employ (to play apologist) is silly!

The real question is, barring negligible and irrelevant surface tension artifacts, what is the measured and measurable shape of waters surface at rest?

Bubbles are often spherical - does that prove the shape of the gas? The logic you are trying to employ (to play apologist) is silly!