Christian Clot, the man who imagined Deep Time, the 40-day confinement experiment in a cave in the Pyrenees looks back on the first results of their experiments ten days after the fifteen participants left the cave.

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Deep in the cave their days lasted 32 hours!

At 10:30 a.m. on April 24, they found the light of day after 40 days underground. 15 volunteer adventurers had taken up residence in the cave of Lombrives, in Ariège. No contact with the outside, no notion of time, with 100% humidity and all that … for science!

For some volunteers, when they left, they were only on the thirtieth day of the experience. Sleep cycles have therefore been altered. The days were no longer 24 hours, but 32 hours.

About fifty scientific protocols

“We have seen the brain take precedence over biology. We woke up because we needed it but also because we wanted to do something with another person ” explains Christian Clot.

During this mission, the volunteers participated in around fifty scientific protocols. The objective: to study a group’s ability to adapt to a world without spatio-temporal landmarks.

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