Paper 4: Black Hole Entropy, Evaporation, and Information Conservation in the Holosphere Lattice

We present a discrete physical model of black holes based on the Holosphere lattice—an angularly coherent, Planck-structured spacetime composed of spinning neutron-scale spheres. In this framework, gravity and entropy emerge from the suppression and saturation of angular vacancy defects. Black holes form not as singularities, but as defect-saturated shells where strain accumulates and vacancy flux halts. Evaporation proceeds through rare surface relaxation events that emit angularly entangled defects, externalizing information and reducing strain in discrete steps. The model naturally recovers the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy-area relation, resolves the information paradox via unitary emission, and provides quantitative predictions for gravitational wave echoes, quantized evaporation energy, and holographic surface memory. Beyond black holes, we extend this framework to cosmology: Appendix B introduces a boundary defect drain that allows an eternally structured universe to remain low-entropy, resolving the thermodynamic arrow of time in steady-state conditions. Appendix C formalizes surface entanglement through a spinor field encoding, providing a quantum-coherent interpretation of black hole memory. This unified framework replaces geometric singularities with discrete dynamics, offering a falsifiable and physically grounded theory of black hole thermodynamics and cosmic evolution