Abstract Standard cosmology attributes ~95% of the energy density of the Universe to dark matter (~27%) and dark energy (~68%), while baryonic matter constitutes only ~5%. Dark matter is inferred from gravitational binding on galactic and cluster scales, dark energy — from accelerated cosmic expansion. Despite extensive searches, no dark matter particles have been directly detected, and the nature of dark energy (cosmological constant Λ or dynamical field?) remains unknown. Global Complexity–Stability Theory (GCST) interprets both phenomena as different spatial manifestations of the same structural debt D accumulated since the Information Shock (Big Bang). The cosmic stability index fell below 1 in the early universe and has remained in a slow Rate-Induced Collapse (R-collapse) regime. Debt D drives localized gravitational binding (effective dark matter) where complexity gradients ∇C are high, and global expansion acceleration (effective dark energy) where ∇C ≈ 0. GCST explains the precise 95:5 ratio as the dissipative limit — baryonic matter is the fraction that successfully relaxed (dissipated), while 95% is frozen debt driving large-scale dynamics.
Roman Lukin (Thu,) studied this question.