Abstract
The Lorentz Factor has long been accepted as fundamental to special relativity, preserving the spacetime interval between two events and leading to concepts such as time dilation. Current research into applications of the Entropy Decision Risk Model (EDRM) developed for decision engineering revealed an apparent iso-morphology, ("same morphological structure" as described by Ludwig von Bertalanffy in General System Theory), between the inverse of the Lorentz factor and EDRM as a translation between measurable objective probability and subjective probably, referred to as proximity. This paper provides an exploratory conceptual analysis of the inverse of the Lorentz factor as the nearness to either zero speed and the speed of the light and potential applications from physics for decision engineering and decision making under uncertainty. This research also considers the possibility that EDRM's derivation as the entropy divergence from certainty may also inform special relativity models, thereby benefitting both physics and engineering disciplines. This research has potential implications to engineering management research and practice.