Friction is generally not included in Lagrangian and Hamiltonian treatments of energy mechanics. It is usually defined as energy ``lost'' (inability to do work) during interactions of bodies. It is mathimatically modeled, but what it is in unstated. The answer is probably dependant on your model, so what is your model (200 characters or less). An allied question may be: what is heat at the quantum level of particle interaction? As I understand some ``mass '' as in mc^2 is lost but there is no particle characteristic of the lost mass. So, what is this lost mass?
Generally, I would understand it as some oscillation resulting from the interaction, which is damped by emitting something.
Or is that too generic?
One might also define it as any process that generates entropy (on any level), but that term is somewhat similarly obscure.
Emanuel Willert
Thanks. ``...process that generates entropy...''. very good.
Do you have a paper where you go a bit more in depth?
Dampened oscillator seems a mathematical but not causative description. ``Emitting something'' yes, but what ( not energy?).
Even in the vacuum context "friction" will imply inertial force action. This may be so because vacuum not an empty space; particles pop in and out as per any of paradigms that are existing now, including the GUT, the Standard Model, even the Super Symmetry, and the Super String Theory. I think most of the PHYSICS models point to it.
Presently, my approach like Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) having Hod-PDP mechanism on noisy superluminous plenum universal extent is proposed to generate particle or quasi-particle like entities that will have inertial characteristics within what we generally call as "vacuum" currently. "Vacuum friction" will imply creation of vacuum itself may be only occurring dynamically, for example, by a churning "curdling" action within infinite Superluminous Plenum!!
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