Posted on 04/24/2022 12:36:36 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Just now, before you hit the button, two future universes are possible. After pressing the button, though, you will live in only one. A real-web version of the famous Schrödinger's cat experiment clicking the red button in the featured astronaut image should transform that image into a picture of the same astronaut holding one of two cats -- one living, or one dead. The timing of your click, combined with the wiring of your brain and the millisecond timing of your device, will all conspire together to create a result dominated, potentially, by the randomness of quantum mechanics. Some believe that your personally-initiated quantum decision will split the universe in two, and that both the live-cat and dead-cat universes exist in separate parts of a larger multiverse. Others believe that the result of your click will collapse the two possible universes into one -- in a way that could not have been predicted beforehand. Yet others believe that the universe is classically deterministic, so that by pressing the button you did not really split the universe, but just carried out an action predestined since time began. We at APOD believe that however silly you may feel clicking the red button, and regardless of the outcome, you should have a thought-provoking day. Or two.
For more detail go to the link and click on the image for a high definition image. You can then move the magnifying glass cursor then click to zoom in and click again to zoom out. When zoomed in you can scan by moving the side bars on the bottom and right side of the image.
Push the red button in the picture at the link for more on the cat question about Erwin Schrödinger's cat.
Live cat
Take the red pill.
Spell check your tagline.
😁
Thanks. My cursor clicks on things because I brush my touch pad and my typing edits things I don’t intend to edit. Need to use a mouse.
Xan I have a universe without Democrats?
Have a thought-provoking day! Or two!
Why are these people up there joking around? Shouldn’t they be killing Klingons or something?
Somehow we ended up in the alternate universe that does have democRATs.
Dead Cat we have neutralized each other.
That pic is kinda old. See the wing of the Shuttle?
Last flight was 2011.
“Last flight was 2011.”
Did you know that right off the bat, or did you look that up? If you knew that bit of trivia...you need to go on Jeopardy. You’d do well!
Looked it up, but didn’t think it was 11 years ago. Time flies.
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