  Recent astrophysical observations indicate that the universe is composed of a
large amount of dark energy (DE) responsible for an accelerated expansion of
the universe, along with a sizeable amount of cold dark matter (CDM),
responsible for structure formation. At present, the explanations for the
origin or the nature of both CDM and DE seem to require ideas beyond the
standard model of elementary particle interactions. Here, for the first time,
we show that CDM and DE can arise entirely from the standard principles of
strong interaction physics and quantum entanglement. Quantitative agreement
with the present data obtains without the need for any adjustable parameters.
