Trans-Generational Continuity of Dark Matter and Dark Energy

AbstractWe call it dark matter because we cannot see it, and dark energy because we do notunderstand it. Both names reflect our limitations rather than the nature of the things themselves.This paper proposes that what is conventionally termed dark matter is more preciselyFundamental Matter (FM) — the basic form of matter, interacting solely through gravity — andthat what is conventionally termed dark energy is more precisely Fundamental Energy (FE) —the basic expansive property of space, symmetric to gravity.Version 1.6 introduces a unifying thermodynamic observation: both FM and FE are inert withrespect to entropy. FM exists at maximum entropy and therefore does not change. FE has zeroentropy as a uniform property of space. Ordinary matter, by contrast, undergoes entropicchange: it cycles, complexifies, and gives rise to structure, chemistry, and life. This is thefundamental reason why FM and FE persist across cosmological transitions while ordinarymatter does not.Version 1.6 also resolves the cosmological constant problem: vacuum energy belongs to thematter sector (extractable via Hawking radiation) while FE is a property of space itself (notextractable by any black hole mechanism). Their conflation generated the 10¹²² discrepancy.Once separated, the problem dissolves. Furthermore, baryonic asymmetry is proposed as astructural consequence of the inherited inhomogeneous FM distribution — a mechanismcomplementary to and consistent with recent work by Ambrosone et al. (2022) on black-hole-mediated baryogenesis.