An article came through my RSS feeds yesterday that looked for all the world like the New York Times was copying our Basic Concepts idea. Labelled as "Basics," it promised to provide a general discussion of the concept of time. "You bastards!" I thought.
The actual article by Natalie Angier isn't all that similar to what you'll get from Basic Concepts posts on ScienceBlogs, taking much more of a humanities-major kind of approach, and giving a wide and fluffy survey of different concepts of time. It's still an interesting read, though.
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Another group (in this case, pair) of scientists have come up with a species concept.
Wilkins has replied to my post on species concepts.
Just to let you know where things stand, I'm in the process of setting up the study. Some of the coding is a bit over my head, because I've never done this sort of thing on the web before.
There were some interesting comments here. Perhaps your post on what is a clock - the preamble to your series - may be included in the Basics series.
Time is what a clock measures. If you do not like oscillators, use radioactive decay. Observation falsifies theory, not the reverse (unless you enjoy AD 476-1054 Europe, the New Soviet Man; contemporary Wahhabi Saudi Arabia and US Homeland Severity).
Is time fundamentally quantized? Is gravitation fundamentally quantized? Probably "no" in both cases. It's more fun that way.