Trans-Generational Continuity of Dark Matter and Dark Energy

Although further validation is required, the Cosmological Constant
Problem has been provisionally addressed within the current framework.

Abstract
We call it dark matter because we cannot see it, and dark energy because
we do not understand it. Both names reflect our limitations rather than the
nature of the things themselves. This paper proposes that what is
conventionally termed dark matter is more precisely Fundamental Matter
(FM) — the basic form of matter, interacting solely through gravity — and
that what is conventionally termed dark energy is more precisely
Fundamental Energy (FE) — the basic expansive property of space,
symmetric to gravity.
Version 1.6 introduces a unifying thermodynamic observation: both FM and
FE are inert with respect to entropy. FM exists at maximum entropy and
therefore does not change. FE has zero entropy as a uniform property of
space. Ordinary matter, by contrast, undergoes entropic change: it cycles,
complexifies, and gives rise to structure, chemistry, and life. This is the
fundamental reason why FM and FE persist across cosmological transitions
while ordinary matter does not.
Version 1.6 also resolves the cosmological constant problem: vacuum
energy belongs to the matter sector (extractable via Hawking radiation)
while FE is a property of space itself (not extractable by any black hole
mechanism). Their conflation generated the 10¹²² discrepancy. Once
separated, the problem dissolves. Furthermore, baryonic asymmetry is
proposed as a structural consequence of the inherited inhomogeneous FM
distribution — a mechanism complementary to and consistent with recent
work by Ambrosone et al. (2022) on black-hole-mediated baryogenesis.
Version 2.0 demonstrates that the 10¹²² discrepancy is not a fine-tuning
problem — it is a boundary problem. Pauli (1933) observed that vacuum
zero-point energy does not gravitationally interact; Cohen, Kaplan & Nelson
(1999) formalized the boundary condition; this model provides the physical
mechanism via FM’s Equivalent Exchange Principle. Once the boundary is applied,

the CKN condition recovers a vacuum energy density of ∼10⁻⁹ J/m³
— within the same order of magnitude as the observed FE density of 5.36 ×
10⁻¹⁰ J/m³ (Planck 2018). A discrepancy of 10¹²² orders reduces to within a
single order. Version 2.1 identifies electromagnetically inert particles —
neutrinos and gravitons — as observationally accessible proxies for FM
behaviour at the event horizon, providing indirect evidence for the
Equivalent Exchange Principle.