TORONTO After 40 days in a cave with no clocks and no sunlight, the director of an unusual project designed to test humans’ perception of time says he would do it all again, without hesitation. The Deep Time project had 15 volunteers enter a cave with no sunlight and no clocks for 40 days and 40 nights. The aim of the isolation study was to see what happened when people had no sense of time, inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic. The group of volunteers had no contact with the outside world, no internet, just each other to pass the time inside the Lombrives cave in France.
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MONTREAL Spending more time indoors has been a harsh reality of the COVID-19 pandemic, but one Montrealer took the lockdown to another level. Marina Lancon spent 40 days in the Lombrives cave in Ariege, France with no sunlight, WiFi, or even a sense of time. I’m not a scientist, I’m an adventure guide. So, for me, getting to know and study how we react in extreme environments is really interesting, she told CTV News Tuesday via videoconference from France. Lancon was among 15 others who participated in the Human Adaptation Institute s Deep Time research project to study the effects on humans in extreme environments without the ability to measure time.
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With no way to reference time inside a cave, organising tasks together had been a particular challenge, Clot told AP.
As the world experiences forced isolation due to the pandemic, a cave experiment explores how humans adapt in extreme confinement.
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Fifteen French volunteers have spent 40 days in a cave with no sunlight or any connection to the outside world in an experiment that sought to better understand our perception of time, and how people adapt to drastic changes in living conditions.
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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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)