Exotic Quarks as Dark Matter Candidates

This paper proposes that dark matter consists of exotic quarks with Transactional Configuration Index (TCI) values between 3 and 14 within the Vacuum Energy Quanta Field (VEQF) framework. These entities are inert solitons that fail to form stable hadrons due to prohibitively high binding energy requirements, scaling as (T1*T2*T3)^3, which exceed lattice energy limits. Remaining electromagnetically inert but gravitationally active through emergent mass properties, they form dark matter halos via entropic repulsion and energy density gradients during the Big Bang era. This model unifies dark matter with VEQF's lattice-based ontology, explaining observational phenomena like galactic rotation curves without invoking quantum particles.