2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/13174We suggest that dark matter is made up of massive quark objects that have survived from the Big Bang, representing the ground state of ``baryonic'' matter. Hence, there was no overall phase transition of the original quark matter, but only a split-up into smaller objects. We speculate that normal hadronic matter comes about through enforced phase transitions when such objects merge or collide, which also gives rise to the cosmic gamma-ray bursts.8 pages Latex, no figures; to be published in the Proceedings of Dark '98, Heidelberg, July 1998AstrophysicsHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenologytext