A 40-Day “Deep Time” Experiment Has Been Launched For The First Time In The World With 15 Volunteers On March 14

For the sake of science alone, would you agree to live 40 days in a cave completely surrounded by strangers and without access to a phone, clock or natural light?(*14*)

An extreme experiment, ‘first in the world’, does just that to explore the effects of long-term isolation on the human body by 15 people without the concept of time.(*14*)

“Wasting time is the biggest disorientation in existence, and that’s what the Deep Time mission wants to better understand,” the team said on their website.(*14*)

“During certain events, our perception of time changes – each second seems to pass very slowly or very quickly, regardless of the reality.”(*14*)

‘So what is going to happen? How do you find a sense of time? What are the connections between cognitive and biological time, brain, and genetic cells? ‘(*14*)

What is the relationship between the perceived time of our clocks and the normative time? How does our brain see time? ‘(*14*)

To answer these questions, the project leaders said that fifteen participants will be monitored by a team of a dozen powerful scientists on the surface, using data collected with various sensors.(*14*)

Among the French volunteers, aged 27-50, who participated in the experiment, there is a biologist, a jeweler, and a math teacher.(*14*)

Located in Lombrives cave in Ariège, the team özgü four tons of resources for living, along with a pedal dynamo for water and electricity from the cave.(*14*)

Among the participants, task leader Christian Clot was inspired to stage the kontrol after seeing how the COVID-19 epidemic özgü brought isolation to our lives.(*14*)

However, the explorer received some criticism in the French press for taking the title of ‘researcher’ even though he did not have a formal scientific training.(*14*)

The ‘Deep Time’ experiment started on Sunday, March 14th at 20:00 local time, and will end on April 22, if everything is planned.(*14*)

The project’s findings may relate to future space missions, submarine crews, mining crews, and other environments in which people have been shut down for extended periods of time.(*14*)

Deep Time follows in the footsteps of French geologist Michel Siffre, who spent several long periods underground, including a six-month study in 1972.(*14*)

He found that regardless of the stimuli of natural light, the duration of the human body’s circadian cycle can vary.(*14*)

Circadian clock; It is the totality of biochemical and psychological behaviors of plants, animals, fungi and cyanobacteria within 24 hours.(*14*)

29-year-old Arnaud Burel, one of the participantsHe said he agreed to take part in the unconventional experiment to experience this timeless life that would be impossible outside without our computers and cell phones. (*14*)

But the biologist added that he thought it would not be easy to spend about six weeks in a cave with 14 strangers and communication would be key to ensure that their time together went smoothly.(*14*)

In Lombrives, Europe’s largest cave by volume, the team will have to adapt to a constant 12 ° C temperature and 95 percent humidity.(*14*)

The Parisian Speaking, Clot said, “Three separate living areas were created in the cave, one for sleeping, one for living and the other for research on the topography of the place, especially the flora and fauna.” (*14*)

The experiment was funded from both public and private sources of funding with a total of € 1.2 million. (*14*)

Sinirbilimci Etienne Koechlin, “This experiment is a first in the world,” he said.(*14*)

Until now, all tasks of this type have focused on the study of the physiological rhythms of the body, but have never focused on the impact of this type of temporal rupture on the cognitive and emotional functions of human beings, ”he added.(*14*)

More about the experiment It can be found on the Deep Time website.(*14*)

Compiled by: Feyza ÇETİNKOL

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