Without the force of gravity, the intense pressures at the core of the sun would cause it to burst open. The same fate would befall other stars in the Universe. Eventually, there would only be a diffuse soup of atoms and molecules drifting around.
While this scenario is impossible, it helps to illustrate just how fundamental gravity is to the Universe.
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