These volunteers spent 40 days in a cave with no sunlight or way to tell time
Montreal s Marina Lançon was one of 15 people who volunteered to spend 40 days in a French cave without any way to tell the time or communicate with the outside world all in the name of science.
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Posted: Apr 27, 2021 5:44 PM ET | Last Updated: April 27
Marina Lançon, pictured in the centre with a blue bandana and gray sweater, emerges from the Lombrives Cave in France with 14 other people after 40 days underground.(Renata Brito/The Associated Press)
What happens if you put 15 people together in a dark cave and take away their ability to track the passage of time? An extraordinary experiment in France has attempted to answer this question, and the results are fascinating.
French study examining effects of being cut off from world finds time seemed to pass more slowly for participants as they lived underground, deprived of clocks or sunlight