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This article reveals how neutron stars consistently reach 1.4 solar masses, suggesting a law of nature preventing collapse.
A belief shared by Albert Einstein and by Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington involved the probable existence of some unrecognized law of nature that prevents unrestricted gravitational collapse. The present article builds on this belief by making the reasonable assumption that Nature imposes an absolute limit on the density of mass. This premise of an ultimate density state becomes the key to resolving the mystery of why the overwhelming number of neutron stars have the same total mass value. The mystery involves the long-standing question, Why is there this amazing over-representation of neutron bodies measuring 1.4 solar mass? It turns out these identically-massed bodies are the neutron stars that have acquired a critical-state surface and, so, have reached their final (and identical) evolutionary state —and are recognized as End-State neutron stars. Then, using conventional physics, the radius, volume, and density immediately follow. Finally, by incorporating the simple mass-annihilation mechanism from DSSU theory (currently the most advanced problem-free cosmology), it is revealed how the Terminal state is maintained —how, regardless of the mass quantity an End-State neutron star absorbs, its total mass of 1.4 solar mass never ever changes!
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