scholarly journals Bistatic scattering at soft–hard strips and plates: method of moments (MoM), theory of edge diffraction (TED), and physical theory of diffraction (PTD) analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. 1117-1123
Author(s):  
Pyotr Ya Ufimtsev ◽  
Gokhan Apaydin
1990 ◽  
Vol 137 (1) ◽  
pp. 27 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.C. Kendall ◽  
M.J. Robertson ◽  
P.W.A. McIlroy ◽  
S. Ritchie ◽  
M.J. Adams

Author(s):  
Leemon B. McHenry

What kinds of things are events? Battles, explosions, accidents, crashes, rock concerts would be typical examples of events and these would be reinforced in the way we speak about the world. Events or actions function linguistically as verbs and adverbs. Philosophers following Aristotle have claimed that events are dependent on substances such as physical objects and persons. But with the advances of modern physics, some philosophers and physicists have argued that events are the basic entities of reality and what we perceive as physical bodies are just very long events spread out in space-time. In other words, everything turns out to be events. This view, no doubt, radically revises our ordinary common sense view of reality, but as our event theorists argue common sense is out of touch with advancing science. In The Event Universe: The Revisionary Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead, Leemon McHenry argues that Whitehead's metaphysics provides a more adequate basis for achieving a unification of physical theory than a traditional substance metaphysics. He investigates the influence of Maxwell's electromagnetic field, Einstein's theory of relativity and quantum mechanics on the development of the ontology of events and compares Whitehead’s theory to his contemporaries, C. D. Broad and Bertrand Russell, as well as another key proponent of this theory, W. V. Quine. In this manner, McHenry defends the naturalized and speculative approach to metaphysics as opposed to analytical and linguistic methods that arose in the 20th century.


Author(s):  
Bernhard F.W. Gschaider ◽  
Claudia C. Honeger ◽  
Christian E. P. Redl ◽  
Johannes Leixnering

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