Rough calculations assume that

• Rough calculations assume that

  • primary pressure support comes from a combination of nuclear forces between particles and the pauli exclusion principle
  • most of the material inside the NS is degenerate

• Strong interactions between nucleons are more complicated than EM coupling between charged particles. Strong interactions characterized by

  • An attractive force at a distance of a pions Compton wavelength
  • a stronger replusive force at shorter distances on the scale of the wavelength of vector mesons