A Watched Pot Never Boils

[rwenzori]

I came across this on Wikipedia, and admit to finding it fascinating - more quantum weirdness:

The Quantum Zeno Effect

The quantum Zeno effect is a name coined by George Sudarshan and Baidyanath Misra of the University of Texas in 1977 in their analysis of the situation in which an unstable particle, if observed continuously, will never decay. One can nearly ”freeze” the evolution of the system by measuring it frequently enough in its (known) initial state.

If you keep a close eye on Schrodinger's kitteh, he will never die.

 

[MadMailMan]

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