Kaon Condensation, Black Holes and Cosmological Natural Selection
Abstract
It is argued that a well measured double neutron star binary in which the two neutron stars are more than 4% different from each other in mass or a massive neutron star with mass M > 2 Msun would put in serious doubt or simply falsify the following chain of predictions: (1) nearly vanishing vector meson mass at chiral restoration, (2) kaon condensation at a density n ~ 3 n0, (3) the Brown-Bethe maximum neutron star mass Mmax ~ 1.5 Msun and (4) Smolin's `Cosmological Natural Selection' hypothesis.
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