ON THE UNITY AND VARIETY OF THE FORCES OF NATURE.

It is shown that any forces in their general physical understanding arise as a result of spatial inhomogeneity of the systems under study. Universal expression of external and internal, mechanical and non-mechanical, long-range and short-range, active and reactive, useful and dissipative forces as negative gradients of the corresponding potential is proposed. Such (energodynamic) forces were found for a large number of known and a number of unknown processes. It is concluded that a unified method for finding clearly distinguishable forces can serve as an alternative to the unified field theory.