That's a great way to picture it. When you spin clay, you use centrifugal force to spread it out and then your hands—your gravity—pull it back together into a shape. In the same way, interstellar gas and dust spin as they collapse, and their own gravity pulls material inward, forming disks and eventually planets. The potter’s wheel and the universe both rely on rotation, pressure, and attraction to sculpt something new. So yeah, you can think of the cosmos as a giant, invisible clay we’re all helping to shape, one star at a time.