TEMPORAL VISCOSITY AND TOPOLOGICAL HYSTERESIS: THE DISSIPATIVE ORIGIN OF THE ARROW OF TIME IN THE KAGOME VACUUM

General Relativity models time as a geometric coordinate within a pseudo-Riemannian manifold, implying a block universe where the past and future are ontologically symmetric. This geometric reversibility contradicts the manifest irreversibility of thermodynamic and quantum measurement processes. Within the Holographic Information Tension (HIT) framework, we propose that the "flow" of time is not a geodesic traversal but a discrete update sequence of the Sub-Planckian Information Tension Fluid (SPITF). We posit that the underlying 3D Kagome lattice possesses non-zero "Topological Hysteresis" due to geometric frustration. Consequently, state transitions (temporal updates) require overcoming an information energy barrier, generating a microscopic entropy production rate. This effect emerges macroscopically as "Temporal Viscosity," necessitating a non-Hermitian correction to the Hamiltonian of cosmic evolution. We derive the modified Liouville equation for the vacuum density matrix and demonstrate that the arrow of time is the phenomenological manifestation of vacuum friction. We predict that this rheological property leads to "Vacuum Plasticity," where high-amplitude gravitational waves induce permanent, non-elastic deformations in the spacetime metric, distinct from the standard nonlinear memory effect.