Ever wonder what it would feel like to unplug from a hyperconnected world and hide away in a dark cave for 40 days?
Fifteen people in France did just that, emerging on Saturday from a scientific experiment to say that time seemed to pass more slowly in their cavernous underground abode in southwestern France, where they were deprived of clocks and light.
With big smiles on their pale faces, the 15 left their voluntary isolation in the Lombrives Cave to a round of applause and basked in the light while wearing special glasses to protect their eyes after so long in the
French cavers on fast forward as 40-day underground isolation goes by in no time
The group had no clocks, no sunlight and no contact with the world above for the duration of their experiment
25 April 2021 • 6:30pm
After 40 days in voluntary isolation, 15 people participating in a scientific experiment have emerged from a vast cave in southwestern France
Credit: Human Adaptation Institute via AP
Eight men and seven women who emerged into daylight after spending 40 days and 40 nights in a cave without any indication of time made a surprising discovery - time appeared to move more quickly in confinement.
The group was sequestered underground for a scientific study known as the ‘Deep Time’ project, which measured how the brain perceives time in isolation.
15 people spend 40 days in cave, lose the sense of time
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‘Deep Time’ project aimed at studying how people adapt to changes in living conditions, environments
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Study time: Members of the team taking part in the “Deep Time” study in the Lombrives Cave , France.
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Bruno MAZODIER
‘Deep Time’ project aimed at studying how people adapt to changes in living conditions, environments
Ever wonder what it would feel like to unplug from a hyperconnected world and hide away in a dark cave for 40 days?
Fifteen people in France did just that, emerging on Saturday from a scientific experiment to say that time seemed to pass more slowly in their cavernous underground abode in southwestern France, where they were deprived of clocks and light.
A group of 15 volunteers has left a cave in southwestern France where they had stayed for 40 days, in an study called the "Deep Time" project probing the limits of human adaptability to isolation.