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The quantum reason behind the solidity of matter
(bigthink.com)
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Electrostatic repulsion is also an indispensable component, so the answer obviously isn’t that short.
To quote the article;
"The Pauli Exclusion Principle doesn’t only explain why matter is solid, but also why it occupies the amount of space that it does. Again: it isn’t just the uncertainty principle and electrostatic repulsion that’s responsible for volume; if matter were made of bosons, it wouldn’t occupy space in the same fashion that it does when it’s made of fermions"