http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0611167.pdf
I draw your attention, in particular to the equation: *p* = ยต*v* + q*A* This is old and accepted physics. However, the q*A* term is addition to Newton's 2nd law, is it not? Moreover, it appears to be dynamic. A number of changing physical quantities can affect it and not just slightly either. There seems to be a psychological problem involving *A*. People keep making noises like it is "just a computational device -- not an actual physical quantity". It is this psychological problem that fascinates me. As the late Tom Etter alluded in the title of his Physics Essays paper "Process, System, Causality and Quantum Mechanics: A Psychoanalysis of Animal Faith<http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9808011>" the analysis we should be doing may be more psychological than physical. Here are some preliminary thoughts: In physics there seem to be dimensions that crop up in interesting ways -- two of which are "action" and "information", with "information" related to measurement. Action, unless there is some good way to interpret it in terms of information, seems to be more immediately pertinent. Here's a quote from the William O. Davis article "The Fourth Law of Motion"<http://www.rexresearch.com/dean/davis4.htm>that hooked me on "action" as a proximate key: What form should the Equation of Motion now take if we assume a force proportional to the surge as well as a force proportional to acceleration? The simplest assumption, and one which seems to be supported by preliminary data, is that the new force is additive, in the same way that forces due to viscous drag and displacement are additive. In other words, we now write the equation of Motion: F = Ma + Aa(superdot) (5) Where A is a new term which we have labeled 'intractance' and which has units of mass-seconds. Because the solutions of the equation in some cases yield the ratio A/M as the critical action time (CAT) of the system, we have in those cases assumed that the intractance is the product of the mass and the CAT: A = DM (6) Let us now see how this equation of motion can be used to analyze and predict the anomalous behavior of a simple system. Starting transients normally are considered only in connection with the beginning or the end of a motion and hence are accorded no particular attention. However, there are certain types of cyclic motion where the transient behavior is continuous, or repetitive and we will see later that even certain single transients may have critical importance in understanding natural events. Note that Davis's "A" has dimensions of mass*time. Dimensional analysis tells us that this can be viewed as action if we convert mass to energy so that instead of mass*time we have energy*time. I'll leave my comments about "Davis Mechanics" there for the moment since this special-relativisitc unity between "intractance" and action seems to me to be a lot to digest.
