MetaTime XVIII: Dark Matter as the Compressed Future Prior to Execution

MetaTime XVIII: Dark Matter as Uncompressed Future Latency and the Caching Buffer of the UniverseThis paper develops a new interpretation of dark matter within the MetaTime research program. Instead of treating dark matter as an unknown particle species, the manuscript identifies it with the gravitationally active reservoir of the future in compressed, unprocessed form. In this framework, physical reality is divided into executed information, corresponding to the observable present, and latent future information, corresponding to states that have not yet been decompressed into dynamical actuality.The paper argues that this future-latency sector is electromagnetically dark because it has not yet entered the execution channel, but remains gravitationally relevant because latent information carries deferred physical cost under a Landauer-bounded cosmology. Dark matter is therefore reinterpreted as the metric imprint of not-yet-processed reality.The manuscript also introduces the Galactic Buffer Hypothesis: galactic halos are described as local accumulations of compressed future states surrounding regions of high execution demand. In this picture, galaxies act as baryonic execution nodes, while dark halos function as thermodynamic caching structures required by a finite-bandwidth universe.This work is a conceptual and theoretical contribution to the MetaTime program, linking dark matter, the arrow of time, latent information, and gravitational dynamics into a single ontological and thermodynamic framework.