FRENCH TIME LOSS EXPERIMENT

Fifteen people are spending 40 days in a large cave in Ariège, in the Pyrénées mountains in the south of France, without phones, watches or any type of device that could help them tell time. The project, said to be “the first of its kind,” is called Deep Time. The goal is to study the impact of not having any sense of time on humans’ cognitive and emotional functions. The project has been getting a lot of attention in France, mainly because the man behind the project, Franco-Swiss explorer Christian Clot, who himself is one of the participants, calls himself a researcher but has no scientific training. The Deep Time mission began on Sunday, March 14, and is scheduled to last until April 22nd. Everyone in the cave will be monitored by a team on the surface. The 15 participants will receive no compensation.
* You can bet they will all emerge from the cave to find their houses have been robbed.
* I’m sure I’ve heard of the French underground before.
* If you go to the movies, you know there are two ways this will end. Either they will all be devoured by a prehistoric cave creature, or they’ll come out of the cave to find everybody in the world is dead from a plague.
* You could do this exact same time-loss experiment with any 15-year-old boy and a Play Station.
* Or in any Vegas casino, where there’s never a clock in sight to make you want to leave.
* This would be hilarious: Actually leave them down there for 100 days. “Let us out!!!” “What do you mean? It’s only been three weeks!”