<P> In the transactional interpretation the apparatus emits an advanced wave backward in time, which combined with the wave that the source emits forward in time, forms a standing wave . The waves are seen as physically real, and the apparatus is considered an "observer". In the transactional interpretation, the collapse of the wavefunction is "atemporal" and occurs along the whole transaction between the source and the apparatus . The cat is never in superposition . Rather the cat is only in one state at any particular time, regardless of when the human experimenter looks in the box . The transactional interpretation resolves this quantum paradox . </P> <P> The Zeno effect is known to cause delays to any changes from the initial state . </P> <P> On the other hand, the anti-Zeno effect accelerates the changes . For example, if you peek a look into the cat box frequently you may either cause delays to the fateful choice or, conversely, accelerate it . Both the Zeno effect and the anti-Zeno effect are real and known to happen to real atoms . The quantum system being measured must be strongly coupled to the surrounding environment (in this case to the apparatus, the experiment room...etc .) in order to obtain more accurate information . But while there is no information passed to the outside world, it is considered to be a quasi-measurement, but as soon as the information about the cat's well - being is passed on to the outside world (by peeking into the box) quasi-measurement turns into measurement . Quasi-measurements, like measurements, cause the Zeno effects . Zeno effects teach us that even without peeking into the box, the death of the cat would have been delayed or accelerated anyway due to its environment . </P> <P> According to objective collapse theories, superpositions are destroyed spontaneously (irrespective of external observation), when some objective physical threshold (of time, mass, temperature, irreversibility, etc .) is reached . Thus, the cat would be expected to have settled into a definite state long before the box is opened . This could loosely be phrased as "the cat observes itself", or "the environment observes the cat". </P>

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