https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=172.69.180.164explain xkcd - User contributions [en]2026-04-17T09:14:29ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:3076:_The_Roads_Both_Taken&diff=373082Talk:3076: The Roads Both Taken2025-04-15T19:43:38Z<p>172.69.180.164: </p>
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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/ --[[User:PRR|PRR]] ([[User talk:PRR|talk]]) 05:25, 15 April 2025 (UTC)<br />
:Added World Quantum Day to the article. Thanks. [[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]]) 13:25, 15 April 2025 (UTC)<br />
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I think "Photon poetry" is a reference to Vogon poetry in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (notoriously the worst poetry in the universe). [[Special:Contributions/104.23.172.2|104.23.172.2]] 07:19, 15 April 2025 (UTC)<br />
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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!<br />
: When a grid's misaligned with another behind, that's a moiré! Biran4454 10:07, 15 April 2025 (UTC)]<br />
::When the spacing is tight<br />
and the difference is slight, <br />
That's a moiré. [[User:DollarStoreBa&#39;al|DollarStoreBa&#39;al]] ([[User talk:DollarStoreBa&#39;al|talk]]) 13:56, 15 April 2025 (UTC)<br />
: 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)<br />
: The original was {{w|That%27s_Amore|a hit for Dean Martin in 1953}}. [https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/10/17/thats-a-moray/ 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. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.246.82|108.162.246.82]] 14:40, 15 April 2025 (UTC)<br />
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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—<br />
I took the one less traveled by,<br />
And I'm beginning to see why. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.180.164|172.69.180.164]] 19:43, 15 April 2025 (UTC)</div>172.69.180.164