From: johnlawrencereedjr on
A Fireside Chat With johnreed, March 27, 2010 update
If you select a physical sub-stratum on which to base a least action
consistent explanation of the least action consistent stable universe
motion, you must determine whether or not your sub-stratum works
because it is consistent with least action motion, or because it is
the cause, or consequence, of that motion.

I say that since all our known models, past and present, have shown a
least action consistency for any mathematical veracity, then the mass
derived, so called universal gravitational model will work, for the
same reason. That is, it will work to the extent that it is consistent
with least action motion.

Mass has many useful definitions. Where each definition reduces to a
"resistance". This then, is the nature of mass: Resistance is
something we feel. This is what we work against. Resistance is a
subjective notion. Resistance. We quantify the resistance in units
of mass. Mass is conserved. So far we have the fact that the
resistance we work against is conserved when we quantify that
resistance in mass units. Mass figures in our planet surface object
interactions. Mass is independent of the celestial attraction
mathematics. ie. All objects fall at the same rate.

Let's take mass out of the incomplete, subjective, and limited precise
description provided by the least action consistent mathematics. Mass
is a word and is subject to the cross hair precision of the English
language. If we don't get this precisely defined we wind up in the
wash of mathematically endorsed, but functional ignorance. The notion
of mass as the amount of matter deludes us. I say that mass
quantitatively defines a conserved resistance that we feel, as planet
surface objects. We measure this comparative resistance with a balance
scale and with impact experiments and learn that it is conserved on
planet and moon surfaces and is proportional with respect to distance
and time in all planet and moon surface physical interactions between
planet and moon surface objects, which we qualify as.

And because mass is conserved we think it is a fundamental property of
the universe. We loosely regard it as an amount of matter that
generates the force we feel and call gravity. And because the force WE
APPLY [F], is equal and opposite to the resistance we encounter [ma],
[mg], we devise
the third law and proportionally generalize our local, subjective,
magnitudes of force to the entire universe, based solely on what we
measure and feel, and least action distance and time parameters And
we conclude that Gravity (what we measure and feel) is an attractive
force between
all objects in the universe [F=ma], [F=mg]. {[mg] = [GMm/r^2]},

Since mass units are conserved, the resistance they represent must be
cumulative and additive and apply across grouped fundamental material
entities. What can we accumulate and add too, such that mass is
conserved where the grouped, individual entity, mass magnitudes, may
vary? I say that the resistance we work against is the conserved
cumulative resistance of planet and moon surface atoms.

Therefore we do not feel a universal gravitational force. Provided
this is correct reasoning, can anyone tell me what we do feel? If
inert mass is the quantitative measure of the conserved cumulative
resistance of a planet surface, inert object's atoms (that we measure
and feel), and if we are living, planet surface inert objects; Then
what we measure and feel, and call gravitational force, is the
accelerated, conserved, cumulative resistance of a planet surface
inert object's atoms. This includes the atoms that make up our bodies
and the atoms in the bowling ball that we lift, etc. Provided this is
correct reasoning, we must conclude that the Earth attractor acts on
atoms and not on mass.

In other words, the Earth attractor acts on matter. We feel the
cumulative resistance of that matter as force. The cumulative
resistance is the sum of the atoms we act on. The force is what WE
feel.

This view is wholly consistent with the present mathematical
approaches. However it also explains several present theoretical
quandaries. The quandaries were my initial focus. They led me to the
core of the present problems.
Have a good time,
johnreed

End note
If you wish to review some of the foundational logic for the ideas
expressed herein do a Google.group search on: "The Least Action
Consistent Universe and the Mathematics, Sections 1 through 9", or
"Randaminor", "Randamajor", "Thejohnreed", "Earth Attractor" or
"Planet Attractor". To exhaust the search on the internet take your
search back to 1998. To exhaust the copyright information take it to
1988 and "Pi and Angular Momentum in Perspective", "The Anti-Billiard
Ball Hypothesis", and "The Physics Preview for the 21st Century".