Neste caso, devido à impossibilidade de existir um equilíbrio absolutamente perfeito em todos os pontos, algumas partículas seriam atraídas para os objetos mais próximos formando por exemplo as estrelas. Por este motivo, segundo ele, um Universo infinito jamais se colapsaria em um único corpo, explicando a diversidade de corpos celestes que observamos.

Carta de Newton ao reverendo Richard Bentley em 1692.

It seems to me, that if the matter of our sun and planets, and all the matter of the universe, were evenly scattered through all the heavens, and every particle had an innate gravity towards all the rest, and the whole space throughout which this matter was scattered, was finite, the matter on the outside of this would by its gravity tend towards all the matter on the inside, and by consequence fall down into the middle of the whole space, and there compose one great spherical mass. But, if the matter were evenly disposed throughout an infinite space, it could never convene into one mass, but some of it would convene into one mass and some into another, so as to make an infinite number of great masses, scattered great distances from one to another throughout all that infinite space. And thus might the sun and fixed stars be formed, supposing the matter were of a lucid nature.