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Re: degeneracy pressure



Maybe I can rephrase my question:

Does "overcoming" degeneracy pressure violate the Pauli exclusion principle, and if the answer is no, why not?

I would think it *does* violate the principle if particles which were previously prohibited from being close to each other are "forced" by gravity to be close to each other. Obviously I don't fully understand what is going on here.

When we speak of "overcoming" gravity what we really mean is that a force is exerted on something which is greater than or equal to the force which gravity exerts and we can move the object against gravity. Gravity is not really "overcome". Since there is really no "force" keeping neutrons from collapsing into each other what is there to "overcome"?

Thanks for your indulgence

Justin