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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
         fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation   
                       written by a professional astronomer.   
      
                                   2022 April 24   
      
                                Split the Universe   
                    Image Credit: NASA, Erwin Schr++dinger's cat   
      
      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 Schr++dinger'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.   
      
                         Tomorrow's picture: great carina   
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          Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP)   
               NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply.   
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                         A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC   
                                & Michigan Tech. U.   
      
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