Talk:3076: The Roads Both Taken

I just saw on Google's Doodle: "...today’s Doodle shows an illustration of quantum superposition. April 14 is World Quantum Day, and this year is also the International Year of Quantum — celebrating 100 years since the discovery of quantum mechanics." https://blog.google/technology/research/world-quantum-day-doodle-superposition-thaumatrope/ --PRR (talk) 05:25, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

Added World Quantum Day to the article. Thanks. Nitpicking (talk) 13:25, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

I think "Photon poetry" is a reference to Vogon poetry in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (notoriously the worst poetry in the universe). 104.23.172.2 07:19, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

Actually, vogon poetry is 3rd worst, but I see your point and shared the same thought process. I think this should be added into the article. 172.68.84.192 (talk) 05:21, 16 April 2025 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Pretty sure the title text is a parody of a song lyric that I can't remember the original of. "When you something something something, that's something". Damn it, its on the tip of my tongue, but it isn't quite coalescing! 162.158.110.237 (talk) 09:56, 15 April 2025 (UTC) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

When a grid's misaligned with another behind, that's a moiré! 172.70.160.217 10:06, 15 April 2025 (UTC)]

When the spacing is tight

and the difference is slight,

That's a moiré. DollarStoreBa'al (talk) 13:56, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

I think it's more likely a slightly clunky way to reach the punchline that is a twist on photon-superposition-fomo being phomo Xseo (talk) 10:15, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

The original was a hit for Dean Martin in 1953. Parodies featuring moray eels came later. I agree with Xseo that Martin's song is unlikely to have been an inspiration for the title text. 108.162.246.82 14:40, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

My favorite is: When you make béchamel and throw cheese in as well that's a Mornay.172.69.246.135 01:59, 16 April 2025 (UTC)

When it causes a stir in your social milieu, that's a more. 172.71.241.100 13:51, 16 April 2025 (UTC)

When the eel's teeth are like saws,

And on two pairs of jaws,

That's a Moray... 172.70.91.129 15:03, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And I'm beginning to see why. 172.69.180.164 19:43, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

funny you should say that. from Wikipedia,

After Frost returned to New Hampshire in 1915, he sent Thomas an advance copy of "The Road Not Taken". Thomas took the poem seriously and personally, and it may have been significant in his decision to enlist in World War I. Thomas was killed two years later in the Battle of Arras.

youtu.be/miLcaqq2Zpk 06:48, 16 April 2025 (UTC)

The two paths and then combined to create interference is methinks an allusion to the double-slit experiment. The Yeti (talk) 20:06, 17 April 2025 (UTC)