This idea has been explored by Julian Barbour in his book The Janus Point. http://www.platonia.com/books.html http://www.platonia.com/books.html The related m

This idea has been explored by Julian Barbour in his book The Janus Point. http://www.platonia.com/books.html http://www.platonia.com/books.html The related math and modelling goes under the name Shape Dynamics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_dynamics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_dynamics Shape Dynamics - An Introduction https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.0183 https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.0183