The Force Pushing Electrons Apart

There's not a fundamental force, but this sort of like an effective force I mean think about having a bunch of electrons and trying to squeeze them down into the same place Well, what's really going on is that you can't have the electrons in the same state And so the electrons resist that by having different energies. If they have more energy, they're like bouncing off the walls of your box with more momentum They're pushing on that box. So effectively they're pushing back on you as you try to squeeze them out. We actually see that happen out there in the universe - for example white dwarfs are these really dense and blobs of super hot metal Like they're left over for