Call for Abstracts
Virtual entities in science: A virtual workshop
5, 12, and 19 March 2021
Online Conference
Germany
https://indico.cern.ch/event/951512/page/20902-call-for-abstracts
Submission deadline: 15 November 2020
Not only since the sudden increase of online communication due to the COVID-19 situation has the concept of the “virtual” made its way into everyday language. In this context, it mostly denotes a digital substitute of a real object or process. “Virtual reality” is perhaps the best known term in this respect.
With these digital connotations, “virtuality” has been used also in science and research: Chemists use virtual laboratories, biologists do virtual scanning of molecular structures, and geologists engage in virtual field trips.
But the concept of the “virtual” has a much longer tradition, dating back to long before the dawn of the digital age. Virtual displacements and virtual images were introduced in classical physics already in the 18th century.… read more. “Call: Virtual entities in science: A virtual workshop”