The Nature of Dark Matter A Cytoskeletal Equivalence Model within the Cellular Cosmology Framework

The nature of dark matter, comprising approximately 27 % of the total energy-matter density of the Universe, remains one of the most persistent unsolved problems in cosmology. Despite extensive searches, no direct detection of WIMPs, axions or sterile neutrinos has been achieved as of February 2026. Within the Cellular Cosmology Hypothesis (CCH), dark matter is not interpreted as a new exotic particle species but as the scaled structural and functional equivalent of the eukaryotic cytoskeleton. Actin microfilaments, microtubules, intermediate filaments and motor proteins map onto the filamentary, stable and dynamically reorganizing components of the cosmic web.This equivalence naturally accounts for flat rotation curves, MOND-like phenomenology, the core-cusp problem, the Bullet Cluster offset, and the filamentary topology of large-scale structure without requiring new exotic particles (Hasić 2026a;  Hasić 2026b).
Dark energy is interpreted as the osmotic cytosol equivalent, leading to a mechanical-osmotic coupling that intrinsically resolves the Hubble tension (Hasić 2026a). The model is highly falsifiable through quantitative topological comparisons (persistence homology, power-law distributions) between super-resolution cellular imaging and JWST/DESI/Euclid data. If confirmed, it establishes a unified biology-physics framework in which quantum gravity and possibly proto-consciousness emerge from scaled biological structures.