We 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.Comment: 8 pages Latex, no figures; to be published in the Proceedings of Dark
'98, Heidelberg, July 199