Modern cosmology assumes the existence of dark matter to explain galaxy rotation curves, gravitational lensing, and large-scale structure. This assumption introduces an invisible substance that dominates the mass content of the universe yet has never been directly detected.
Quarkbase Cosmology proposes a different approach: dark matter is not required. The observed phenomena arise from the physical properties of the vacuum itself and from the volumetric organization of its fundamental compactations.
In Quarkbase Cosmology, the vacuum is a real physical medium. It is continuous, frictionless, and capable of sustaining pressure gradients and stable volumetric structures.
Gravitational and inertial phenomena do not originate from mass acting across empty space, but from how the vacuum is displaced and constrained by physical compactations.
The fundamental unit of physical structure in this framework is the quarkbase. The neutrino is identified as the quarkbase with compactation number N=1.
This means the neutrino is:
Larger structures arise from higher-order compactations (N > 1), leading to the emergence of effective mass and inertia.
Galaxy rotation curves are commonly interpreted as evidence for massive dark matter halos. In Quarkbase Cosmology, they instead reflect large-scale vacuum pressure configurations.
As galactic structures form, they displace and organize the surrounding vacuum. This establishes extended pressure gradients that govern orbital motion at large radii, naturally producing flat rotation curves.
No invisible halos are required. The effect is structural, not particulate.
Gravitational lensing measures the deflection of propagation paths, not the presence of specific particles.
In a vacuum-based framework, light follows trajectories determined by the local geometry and pressure structure of the vacuum. Regions of compressed or organized vacuum produce lensing effects traditionally attributed to dark matter.
Cosmic filaments, clusters, and voids do not require dark matter seeds. They arise from the self-organization of vacuum pressure gradients guided by volumetric compactations.
Matter traces these structures because it is itself a manifestation of higher-order vacuum organization.
Once the vacuum is treated as a physical medium and the neutrino as the fundamental volumetric unit, the conceptual need for dark matter disappears.
Dark matter is revealed as a compensatory hypothesis, introduced to preserve equations that assume an empty, passive vacuum.
Author: Carlos Omeñaca Prado