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French isolation study in a cave ends after 40 days The experiment was to help researchers understand how people adapt to drastic changes in living conditions and environments. Author: Associated Press Updated: 8:48 AM CDT April 24, 2021 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 Saturday from a scientific experiment to say that time seemed to pass more slowly in their cavernous underground abode, where they were deprived of clocks and lig...

Out of the cave: French isolation study ends after 40 days RENATA BRITO, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail LOMBRIVES CAVE, France (AP) — Ever wonder what it would feel like to unplug from a hyperconnected world and hide away in a cave for a few weeks? Fifteen people in France found out. After 40 days in voluntary isolation in a dark, damp and vast cave, eight men and seven women who took part in a scientific experiment emerged Saturday from their self-segregation in the Pyrenees. With big smiles on their pale faces, the 15 participants exited the Lombrives cave to a round of applause a...

Fifteen people have emerged from a French cave after spending 40 days in voluntary isolation with no sense of time or date. The eight men and seven women who took part in a scientific experiment emerged from their self-segregation in the Pyrenees on Saturday morning. With big smiles on their pale faces, the 15 participants left the Lombrives cave to a round of applause and basked in the light of day while wearing special glasses to protect their eyes after so long in the dark. Members of the French team that participated in the Deep Time study (Renata Brito/AP) “It’s really warm!” said ...

USSAT-LES-BAINS, France: A group of 15 French volunteers on Saturday left a cave where they had stayed for 40 days, in an experiment probing the limits of human adaptability to isolation.

Everybody has a favorite psychological experiment where a bunch of people were put in an isolated place for a number of weeks, then left to let nature take its course.  Classics of the genre include the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment, in which volunteers were locked into a prison and assigned the roles of either prisoner or guards, and the Biosphere 2 project, which saw eight people sealed inside an artificial biosphere for 2 years. Needless to say, both went horribly wrong, with the prison experiment ending in a complete (and possibly partially-staged) horror show, and Biosphere 2 endi...