If you’re not already familiar (and, frankly, are the kind of person who is weird enough to be subscribed to Macroscience), I highly recommend that you immediately stop what you’re doing and visit the Wikipedia page for “long-term experiment”.
Another idea to increase the temporal scope of an experiment is to run it in parallel.
An effort like Sebastian Cocioba's plan to democratize and desktop-ify the LTEE experiment is a good example: https://experiment.com/projects/affordable-and-accessible-experimental-evolution-for-the-classroom
Another idea to increase the temporal scope of an experiment is to run it in parallel.
An effort like Sebastian Cocioba's plan to democratize and desktop-ify the LTEE experiment is a good example: https://experiment.com/projects/affordable-and-accessible-experimental-evolution-for-the-classroom