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In 1962 Michel Siffre spent two months in a cave with no clocks or daylight, emerging convinced it was still August; the experiment showed the brain can run on an internal circadian clock independent of external cues, a finding later refined to an intrinsic ~24.18-hour cycle and echoed by subsequent long-duration cave studies that informed NASA and military planning.
Michel Siffre's 1962 underground cave experiment, where he lived in darkness for two months, led to the discovery that humans have an internal biological clock independent of external cues like sunlight, founding the field of human chronobiology.
In 1962, Michel Siffre's 63-day cave experiment revealed that humans have an internal biological clock that can operate independently of external cues like sunlight, leading to groundbreaking insights in chronobiology and implications for space travel and military isolation.