Shaking Schroedinger's cat (VIDEO) Washington University in St. Louis This video is under embargo. Please login to access this video. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Caption Murch explains research in his physics lab that shows that 'looking at' an atom can either speed up or slow down its decay and the death of the hypothetical cat. Slowing down is called the quantum Zeno effect and speeding up the quantum anti-Zeno effect. Further, his lab finds, these effects occur if you just disturb atom without learning anything about its state. Credit Kater Murch Usage Restrictions None License Licensed content Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.