Dark Matter and Entropy Bond Collapse

Abstract: This paper presents a thermodynamic model based from Entropy Curvature Cosmology (ECC) describing how baryonic matter may emerge from a dark, high-entropy phase of the early universe through a process termed Entropy Bond Collapse (EBC). In this framework, dark matter is interpreted not as a separate particle species but as a metastable, high-entropy phase of the same underlying field that later condenses into baryonic matter. The transition occurs when local entropy density falls below a critical threshold, allowing coupling to the Higgs and quantum chromodynamics (QCD fields). The model identifies the up and down quarks as the stable excitations that condense to form hydrogen, reproducing the observed baryon-to-dark-matter ratio and the amplitude of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) as natural outcomes of the lattice’s thermodynamic evolution.