Quantum Zeno Effect - in Popular Culture

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In the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, a recent creature of the revived series are the Weeping Angels, which demonstrate the Quantum Zeno effect perfectly as they cannot move and stay still whilst being observed by any living thing

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