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© Renata Brito (AP) Members of the French team celebrating the end of their 40-day stay in an underground cave. 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. At 10:30 a.m. local time on Saturday April 24, 15 people emerged from Lombrives cave in Ussat les Bains, France, following 40 days of complete isolation from the outside world. Many of them had smiles on their faces, which... well, full credit to them. Had it...

Share this article Fifteen people emerged from a cave in southwestern France on Saturday after voluntarily participating in an experiment meant to test the limits of human isolation. The scientific experiment, titled the Deep Time project, lasted 40 days and 40 nights and was conducted in the Lombrives cave completely underground. The goal of the study, led by scientists at the Human Adaption Institute, was to observe how the absence of clocks, daylight and communication with the outside world would affect the participants’ sense of time.     The isolation was completely voluntary and two...

  Deep Time, a $1.5 million research project on human adaptation to 40 days in a damp, dark cave with no clocks, no phones, no contact with outside world—finds 67% of subjects wanted to stay in isolation longer. Staying Connected While Staying In No surprise to me. It’s exactly what I’m noticing about invitations to go out and play that I’m putting off a bit longer myself! And it’s not just me, although it is especially interesting on me given how much I wished I could go out and play all that time I spe...

Fifteen volunteers have emerged from a cave in the southwest of France after spending 40 days without clocks, phones, or sunlight for a human isolation experiment.

The eight men and seven women finished their time with the Deep Time experiment on April 24. The volunteers emerged from the darkness to enthusiastic cheers and applause, wearing special sunglasses to help their eyes adjust to the first sunlight they’d seen in over a month. Early reports from the volunteers seem to suggest time moved much slower in the cave. One volunteer, Marina Lançon, said “it was like pressing pause,” and apparently wouldn’t have minded staying there a few days longer, The Guardian reported. Project leader, Christian Clot, said for most of the group it felt like ...