  We present a new action which reproduces the cosmological sector of general
relativity in both the Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) and Bianchi
models. This action makes no reference to the scale factor, and is of a
frictional type first examined by Herglotz. We demonstrate that the
extremization of this action reproduces the usual dynamics of physical
observables, and the symplectification of this action is the Einstein-Hilbert
action for cosmological models. We end by discussing some of the increased
explanatory power produced by considering the reduced physical ontology
resulting from eliminating scale.
