Holographic Informational Ontology Framework - Information Gravity — Paper III: The Ontological Status of White Holes

Holographic Informational Ontology Framework - Information Gravity (HIOF•IG)A Directional Reading of Gravity This is a short, non-technical companion to the seven-part HIOF Information Gravity series. It is written for readers with a background in physics, astronomy, or philosophy of science — not for readers already familiar with the author's wider theoretical framework. The core idea, stated plainly Physics describes gravity with a field: a number or a tensor assigned to every point in space, telling us how strong the pull is. This series asks a different question: not how much, but which way. It proposes a second, complementary language — the arrow — defined as the direction in which informational density converges. The claim is not mystical: it is an ontological reading, offered alongside standard physics, not against it. Why the black hole core might not be "a thing" at all Under extreme compression, space itself is often said to vanish at a singularity. But force requires space to act within. If there is no space, there is nothing for force to act upon, and no coherent sense in which a "compressed object" could exist. This series reads the core instead as a tug-of-war between two informational arrows — one compressing inward, one retreating outward to conserve information — a dynamic contest rather than a static point, aligned structurally with the Planck star hypothesis from loop quantum gravity. Why light bending and black hole retreat might be the same mechanism Light does not feel bent when gravity curves its path — it is simply following the straightest route available. This series proposes that matter behaves the same way at a black hole's core: what looks like "falling forward" is, structurally, a forced retreat once no further path is available, without violating the conservation of information. One principle, two scales. Why a white hole might not be "a place" at all Asking where a white hole is already assumes it occupies a location, the way a black hole's mirror image might. This series argues that assumption is the problem: a white hole is read here as an event, not an object — something that happens rather than something that sits somewhere. That reframing quietly changes what "searching for a white hole" would even mean. Why dark matter and dark energy might be one phenomenon, not two Instead of treating dark matter and dark energy as separate mysterious ingredients, this series reads them as two faces of a single directional flow — one turned inward, one turned outward — with cosmic expansion arising from the statistics of many small events rather than one dominant force. Why anything has an edge at all A grain of sand has a surface; a star has a gravitational range; a particle is "one thing" rather than dissolving into its surroundings. This series treats boundaries themselves as something to be explained, not assumed, proposing that they arise where two opposing informational tendencies meet and hold each other in balance. What the full series covers The seven papers move from an introductory language shift (fields versus arrows), through the black hole core, a unified principle of retreat, the status of white holes, a directional reading of the dark sector, and the origin of boundaries, closing with an appendix of honest grading and open questions. A note on method The series is explicit about separating three registers: established observational physics, original ontological proposals, and descriptive analogy. Readers are encouraged to treat the ontological claims as structured, self-limiting interpretation — not as a replacement for general relativity, and not as settled fact. Specific conditions under which claims would be withdrawn are stated openly in the appendix. Keywords: information gravity, black holes, white holes, dark matter, dark energy, boundaries, ontology, gravitation, complex systems, philosophy of physics AuthorWai-Hung Tam (Pan), Independent ResearcherORCID: 0009-0002-7789-8464Email: [email protected]