<story><title>&apos;Zeno effect&apos; verified: Atoms won&apos;t move while you watch</title><url>http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/10/zeno-effect-verified-atoms-wont-move-while-you-watch</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fauigerzigerk</author><text>Sometimes I feel that people writing about physics are having great fun with deliberately confusing people by making stuff sound magical and illogical.&lt;p&gt;This particular effect has nothing to do with whether or not anyone is looking at an object. It&amp;#x27;s the methods of making it visible that cause the effect.</text></comment>
<story><title>&apos;Zeno effect&apos; verified: Atoms won&apos;t move while you watch</title><url>http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/10/zeno-effect-verified-atoms-wont-move-while-you-watch</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wmt</author><text>*while illuminated by a bright laser. By dimming the laser the quantum behaviour returned, and you watching the atoms or not had no effect on the phenomenon.&lt;p&gt;Despite the misleading title, I imagine affecting the quantum behaviour of atoms with lasers has all kinds of nice use cases!</text></comment>