The paper reviews and extends a relational, shape-based formulation of Newtonian gravity in which only dimensionless ratios are physical, unifying total-collision and parabolic-escape solutions and defining time via increasing variety.
Barbour,The Janus Point, (2020) Basic Books, New York
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The paper reviews and extends a relational, shape-based formulation of Newtonian gravity in which only dimensionless ratios are physical, unifying total-collision and parabolic-escape solutions and defining time via increasing variety.