分裂宇宙
(原标题: Split the Universe)
2022-04-24
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刚才，在你按下按钮之前，有两个可能的未来世界。但按下按钮后，你只会住在一个房间里。著名的Schrödinger猫实验的真实网络版本，点击特色宇航员图像中的红色按钮，应该会将该图像转换为同一名宇航员抱着两只猫中的一只的照片——一只活着，一只死了。你点击的时间，结合你大脑的线路和你设备的毫秒计时，将共同创造一个结果，可能是由量子力学的随机性主导的。有些人认为，你个人发起的量子决定将把宇宙一分为二，活猫和死猫的宇宙都存在于一个更大的多元宇宙的不同部分。另一些人则认为，你点击的结果会将两个可能的宇宙合二为一——以一种事先无法预测的方式。还有一些人认为，宇宙是经典的决定论，所以按下按钮，你并没有真正分裂宇宙，而只是执行了一个从时间开始就注定了的动作。我们APOD相信，不管你觉得点击红色按钮有多傻，不管结果如何，你都应该有一个发人深省的一天。或两个。
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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.