>Water does not bend and curve around balls, nor does it take the exterior shape of objects.

Water always seeks to be level, for example:
Cup of water is level, sink is level, bath is level, local swimming pool is level, lakes are level - ALL OCEANS ON EARTH ARE LEVEL as shown to us in the science world daily.
> At what stage and scale does some new property go into the water to allow it to stick and curve around a spinning cartoon space potato?

The only place Earth is a ball, is in bogus cartoon images and crap math equations.