I guess I more meant that the effects of applied torque can be unintuitive, not the force itself. Hm so in car specs, torque is the rotational force applied to the crankshaft, and horsepower is the amount of work, or transfer of energy, the engine can do in a set time?

And yeah on that atom squeezing stuff was I was more looking for a confirmation if I got it right, no question there if it was in the ballpark.

The degeneracy pressure is a consequence of squeezing electrons close to each other, not to a nucleus.
Alrighty then, not as simple as I expected, not surprisingly. In the visualizations it's always stressed how far the electrons actually are from the nucleus and how much empty space there is in between. If matter is mostly nothing, it just led me to think what would happen if you squeeze matter enough, and just picturing applying enough force to pack all of the atoms (or nuclei) together, with no empty space in between. I do realize it's not like electrons are just there spinning on perfect orbits around the nucleus like earth around the sun, but they're all over the place, even at the same time. That would have just been such a satisfactory intuitive explanation. So what does exactly happen when the force applied is nearing the Chandrasekhar limit, is the distance between the electrons and the nuclei being limited or how do they end up butting heads?