This simulator visualizes how identical fermions fill up available quantum states one at a time while bosons can pile freely into the lowest state, and how that same exclusion mechanism generates a real, measurable degeneracy pressure as particles are compressed.
Toggle between fermion and boson particle types to watch how they fill energy levels differently, then increase the compression or particle count to see degeneracy pressure build up and resist further squeezing.
Switch particle type between fermions and bosons, and adjust compression or particle count to see how quantum statistics change the resulting pressure and state occupation.
The electron degeneracy pressure holding up a white dwarf is so purely quantum mechanical that it would still exist even if the star were cooled to absolute zero, with no thermal motion left at all.
This simulator visualizes how identical fermions fill up available quantum states one at a time while bosons can pile freely into the lowest state, and how that same exclusion mechanism generates a real, measurable degeneracy pressure as particles are compressed.
This simulator visualizes how identical fermions fill up available quantum states one at a time while bosons can pile freely into the lowest state, and how that same exclusion mechanism generates a real, measurable degeneracy pressure as particles are compressed.
Toggle between fermion and boson particle types to watch how they fill energy levels differently, then increase the compression or particle count to see degeneracy pressure build up and resist further squeezing.
The electron degeneracy pressure holding up a white dwarf is so purely quantum mechanical that it would still exist even if the star were cooled to absolute zero, with no thermal motion left at all.