Beyond Causality: Dark Matter as the Ontological Status of Absolute Being

The persistent non-detection of dark matter (DM) particles and the ad hoc nature of dark energy (DE) signify a profound crisis in cosmological interpretation. We propose that this crisis stems from a conflation of ”being” with ”causally connected reality.” Introducing Absolute Being (AB) as the fundamental substrate, we reinterpret the speed of light c as the speed of causality (C)—the maximum rate for establishing cause-effect links. Reality (R) is defined relationally as the domain within AB where causal connection (≤ C) is possible. This yields an ontological identity: DM = AB - R. Here, DM is not a substance but a status: parts of AB causally disconnected from the observer. This division is relative, contingent on the observer’s motion and the mutual velocity of objects (v > C implies causal disconnection). The model predicts the fundamental impossibility of direct DM detection, provides a novel resolution to SRT paradoxes by exposing the inadequacy of Lorentz transformations for describing causally disconnected entities, and recontextualizes cosmological expansion as a manifestation of AB’s intrinsic dynamics, rendering DE superfluous. We thus offer not a new physical theory, but a new ontological foundation from which such a theory may be built.