How the quantum Zeno effect impacts Schroedinger`s cat
(PHYSorg.com Physics)

You`ve probably heard about Schrödinger`s cat, which famously is trapped in a box with a mechanism that is activated if a radioactive atom decays, releasing radiation. The act of looking in the box collapses the atom`s wave function-the mathematical description of its state -from a `superposition` of states to a definite state, which either kills the cat or let`s it live another day.