arXiv:0802.2997·v2·High Energy Physics — Phenomenology
Kaon Condensation, Black Holes and Cosmological Natural Selection
G.E. Brown🇺🇸 · C.-H. Lee🇰🇷 · M. Rho🇫🇷
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 M_sun 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 n_0, (3) the Brown-Bethe maximum neutron star mass M_max ~ 1.5 M_sun and (4) Smolin's `Cosmological Natural Selection' hypothesis.
Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure. Accepted for publication in PRL