How does the egg (sitting on a table) hold up the table? If the “weight vs. support force of table” is not always an equal pair then how is the “support force of the egg vs. the table” an equal pair?
When an egg is sitting on a table, each object is exerting a support force on the other object. Those two support forces are equal in magnitude (amount) but opposite in direction. To be specific, the table is pushing upward on the egg with a support force and the egg is pushing downward on the table with a support force. Both forces have the same magnitude—both are equal in magnitude to the egg’s weight. The fact that the egg is pushing downward on the table with a “support” force shows that not all support forces actually “support” the object they are exert on. The egg isn’t supporting the table at all. But a name is a name and on many occasions, support forces do support the objects they’re exerted on.