Is the quantum Zeno effect the same as Zeno’s paradox?
No. Zeno's motion paradox concerns infinite subdivisions of a journey. The quantum Zeno effect concerns how a sequence of suitable measurements or interactions can suppress transitions in a quantum system. The measurement procedure changes the physical evolution; a person's attention is not the operative ingredient. OPH would describe the preparation, each interaction, the resulting records and their back-action on one source. A formal limit of increasingly frequent measurements needs assumptions about the apparatus and dynamics. It is not evidence that a conscious observer can freeze arbitrary objects, or that an infinite number of actual measurements occurs. The shared name links an analogy about interrupted motion, while the physical questions and their explanations are distinct.
See also How does OPH answer Zeno’s paradox?, Does observing something change it? (the observer effect), What happens when a quantum system is measured?
Sources: Itano and colleagues: Quantum Zeno effect
Also in Chapter 23: Why Does Writing Something Down Cost Heat?.
This answer comes from OPH, Observer Patch Holography. OPH is a rigorous, consistent and complete description of the unified, self-creating computational Universe we inhabit. Its consistency is machine-checked: the fixed point at its core is constructed explicitly, and a theory with a model contains no contradiction.
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