Starts With A Bang #29 - What's At The Center Of A Black Hole
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The Limits of Matter
There's a quantum rule that no two fermions and electrons are examples of fermions can occupy the same quantum state in the same physical location. This is how something as massive as the Sun will remain stable even when its mass is compressed into the volume of Earth. The electromagnetic force owing to the poly exclusion principle will keep this matter from collapsing down any further. If you overcome that, for example, with a neutron star, well, neutrons also behave as fermions, and they also obey the polyclusion principle.
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