Deep Time study: French volunteers leave cave after 40 days in isolation

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56875801

by curmudgeon22 • 5 years ago

37 8 5 years ago

Sounds amazing, other than the 14 other people.

shannifin• 5 years ago

Interesting, though the article itself says nothing about any findings, other than that time seems slower in an environment with less stimulation, which is probably obvious.

simonblack• 5 years ago

There was a similar experiment done some time back. IIRC, the subjects eventually settled on to a 27-hour daily cycle, rather than our normal 24-hour cycle.

That seems to be occurring here too. With them needing a longer objective time to match a 'standard' subjective time.

kgran• 5 years ago

It seems that the opposite is true (they underestimated the time spent in the cave): 40 days seemed like 30 days for most and even 23 days for one volunteer, according to The Guardian article (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/25/deep-time-team...).

_rpd• 5 years ago

Project site: https://deeptime.fr/en/

sirto• 5 years ago

40 days are an appetizer with respect to the records accomplished by Maurizio Montalbini: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurizio_Montalbini Montalbini spent a total of two years and eight months underground since he started his experiments in the 1980s

lm28469• 5 years ago

There is also this other dude: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Siffre

gverrilla• 5 years ago

What a sad study. French people had much more interesting experiments some 200y ago

Deep Time study: French volunteers leave cave after 40 days in isolation

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