The Black Hole Information Paradox in Quantum-Geometry Dynamics: A Dissolution, Not a Solution

The Black Hole Information Paradox in Quantum-Geometry Dynamics: A Dissolution, Not a Solution The black hole information paradox — whether information falling into a black hole is destroyed, violating the unitarity of quantum mechanics, or preserved by some unknown mechanism — is one of the deepest conceptual problems at the intersection of quantum mechanics and gravity. This paper argues that the paradox does not arise within Quantum-Geometry Dynamics (QGD) and that its apparent force depends entirely on three premises that QGD's axiomatic framework rejects: that unitarity is a fundamental requirement of physical law; that singularities exist inside black holes; and that the quantum state of a composite system is the physically fundamental object whose preservation physics is obligated to ensure. Central to the dissolution is a precise distinction between two senses of information. Dynamical information — the complete specification of the positions and momenta of all preons⁺, constituting the state matrix of the universe — is always conserved by the axioms: preons⁺ are eternal and indestructible, their momentum magnitudes are intrinsic constants, and conservation of momentum governs every interaction without exception. No physical process, including the extreme conditions inside a black hole, diminishes the state matrix. Structural information — the description of composite particle configurations — is irreversibly lost when composite structures are disintegrated inside black holes by differential gravitational forces exceeding their binding energy. This loss is not a violation of any conservation law but a direct consequence of the categorical irreversibility of physical processes in discrete space established in Burnstein (2026f, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19522144). Physics has no obligation to preserve the description of composite arrangements that no longer exist. In QGD, black holes are not singularities but regions of maximum preonic density at which physical law does not break down. All matter falling into a black hole is disintegrated into free preons⁺ and neutrinos by differential gravitational interactions. These escape over cosmological timescales through polar jets along the magnetic axis, returning their dynamical information to the preonic field. The evaporation endpoint picture on which the paradox depends — a black hole disappearing entirely into thermal radiation — has no counterpart in QGD's framework. Unitarity is a requirement of quantum mechanical evolution and has no application within QGD, where there is no wave function and probability is epistemic rather than ontic. The apparent necessity of unitarity derives from treating quantum mechanics as the deepest level of physical description. QGD replaces that level with a deterministic ontology from which quantum mechanics emerges as an effective description of observers who cannot access the complete state matrix. Existing proposed resolutions — the Page curve, the island formula, black hole complementarity, and the firewall proposal — are shown to relocate rather than dissolve the paradox. Each accepts its premises and seeks a mechanism within the existing framework; each generates new problems at least as serious as the one it resolves. QGD's approach is a dissolution: the premises are rejected, and with them the paradox ceases to be formulable. The paper is explicitly positioned within the Minimal Physically Derivable Theories (MPDT) programme established by the Uniqueness Theorem (Burnstein 2026a, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19380764) and the broader QGD framework developed in Burnstein Quantum-Geometry Dynamics; an axiomatic approach to physics https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19441690 (2026e). It draws on the black hole model of Burnstein (2026e, Chapter 16) and the irreversibility results of Burnstein (2026f).