Psychology: experiment will see 15 people trapped in a cave for 40 days without sense of time
Mission leader Christian Clot was inspired by the isolation brought by COVID-19 The volunteers are aged 27–50 and include a biologist, a jeweller and a teacher They will have access to food, water and a pedal-based dynamo for electricity Three areas have been lain out in Lombrives cave, in France's Ariège department One for sleeping, one for living and one for studying the cave and its flora/fauna The experiment began on March 14 and is planned to conclude on April 22