Group spends 40 days in French cave as part of Deep Time experiment

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 from the scientific experiment to say time seemed to pass more slowly in their cavernous underground abode in south-west France, where they were deprived of clocks and light.

With big smiles on their pale faces, eight men and seven women left their voluntary isolation in the Lombrives cave to a round of…