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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!
 
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!
: When a grid's misaligned with another behind, that's a moiré! Biran4454 10:07, 15 April 2025 (UTC)
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: When a grid's misaligned with another behind, that's a moiré! Biran4454 10:07, 15 April 2025 (UTC)]
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: I think it's more likely a slightly clunky way to reach the punchline that is a twist on photon-superposition-fomo being _phomo_ [[User:Xseo|Xseo]] ([[User talk:Xseo|talk]]) 10:15, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

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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)

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)

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!

When a grid's misaligned with another behind, that's a moiré! Biran4454 10:07, 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)