3076: The Roads Both Taken - Revision history

172.70.214.34 at 06:18, 18 April 2025

2025-04-18T06:18:44Z

172.71.219.61 at 06:11, 18 April 2025

2025-04-18T06:11:31Z

FaviFake: Yes. my question was to ask people to actually say what was incomplete.

2025-04-17T21:01:58Z

Yes. my question was to ask people to actually say what was incomplete.

172.71.26.42: /* Explanation */ You asked why it was Incomplete, then removed everything ''but'' the Incomplete tag. (IMO, the "created by" joke could have been left in for at least a week, given the nature of tag being "it's recent, someone may not have seen it yet!")

2025-04-17T20:44:19Z

‎Explanation: You asked why it was Incomplete, then removed everything ''but'' the Incomplete tag. (IMO, the "created by" joke could have been left in for at least a week, given the nature of tag being "it's recent, someone may not have seen it yet!")

FaviFake: /* Explanation */ why is this incomplete?

2025-04-17T17:04:36Z

‎Explanation: why is this incomplete?

N0lqu: /* Explanation */

2025-04-17T13:55:58Z

‎Explanation

172.69.225.250: /* Explanation */

2025-04-16T22:59:49Z

‎Explanation

172.71.172.192: /* Explanation */ Identical rhyme

2025-04-16T19:57:38Z

‎Explanation: Identical rhyme

DKMell: portmanteau

2025-04-16T18:32:40Z

portmanteau

N0lqu: /* Explanation */

2025-04-16T14:01:49Z

‎Explanation

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 | number    = 3076
 | date      = April 14, 2025
-| title     = {{w|Kid Pix}}
+| title     = The Roads Both Taken
 | image     = the_roads_both_taken_2x.png
 | imagesize = 361x362px

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 | number    = 3076
 | date      = April 14, 2025
-| title     = The Roads Both Taken
+| title     = {{w|Kid Pix}}
 | image     = the_roads_both_taken_2x.png
 | imagesize = 361x362px

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-In the original, the human narrator, operating at the scale of classical mechanics, contemplates the necessary choice between two mutually exclusive paths. In the parody, the photon, operating at the scale of quantum mechanics, readily explores both paths. At quantum scale, the "roads" and "yellow woods" are metaphorical.{{Citation needed}}
+In the original, the human narrator, operating at the scale of classical mechanics, contemplates the necessary choice between two mutually exclusive paths. In the parody, the photon, operating at the scale of quantum mechanics, readily explores both paths. At quantum scale, the "roads" and "yellow woods" are metaphorical.
 The original contains two additional stanzas about choosing which road to take and sticking with that choice, which did not make it into the parody version.

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	==Explanation==		==Explanation==
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	This comic is a parody of the first and fourth stanzas of {{w\|Robert Frost}}'s 1915 poem "{{w\|The Road Not Taken}}". The joke is that while the human narrator of Frost's poem (presumably Frost himself), confronted with two paths, could take only one of them and is left to [[584: Unsatisfied\|contemplate the consequences of his choice]], the {{w\|Photon\|photonic}} narrator of the parody, thanks to {{w\|Quantum superposition\|quantum physics}}, is not compelled to choose one path over the other but can instead take both simultaneously, resulting in probabilistic {{w\|quantum superposition}}, and is left to contemplate the consequences of ''that'' choice. {{w\|Wave interference#Quantum interference\|Quantum interference}}, referenced in the final line, is an effect of quantum superposition in which particles (including photons) interact with and influence themselves and other particles while in a superposition state.		This comic is a parody of the first and fourth stanzas of {{w\|Robert Frost}}'s 1915 poem "{{w\|The Road Not Taken}}". The joke is that while the human narrator of Frost's poem (presumably Frost himself), confronted with two paths, could take only one of them and is left to [[584: Unsatisfied\|contemplate the consequences of his choice]], the {{w\|Photon\|photonic}} narrator of the parody, thanks to {{w\|Quantum superposition\|quantum physics}}, is not compelled to choose one path over the other but can instead take both simultaneously, resulting in probabilistic {{w\|quantum superposition}}, and is left to contemplate the consequences of ''that'' choice. {{w\|Wave interference#Quantum interference\|Quantum interference}}, referenced in the final line, is an effect of quantum superposition in which particles (including photons) interact with and influence themselves and other particles while in a superposition state.

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 ==Explanation==
-{{incomplete|Simultaneously created by and not created by SCHRÖDINGER'S LYRICIST - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
+{{incomplete}}
 This comic is a parody of the first and fourth stanzas of {{w|Robert Frost}}'s 1915 poem "{{w|The Road Not Taken}}". The joke is that while the human narrator of Frost's poem (presumably Frost himself), confronted with two paths, could take only one of them and is left to [[584: Unsatisfied|contemplate the consequences of his choice]], the {{w|Photon|photonic}} narrator of the parody, thanks to {{w|Quantum superposition|quantum physics}}, is not compelled to choose one path over the other but can instead take both simultaneously, resulting in probabilistic {{w|quantum superposition}}, and is left to contemplate the consequences of ''that'' choice. {{w|Wave interference#Quantum interference|Quantum interference}}, referenced in the final line, is an effect of quantum superposition in which particles (including photons) interact with and influence themselves and other particles while in a superposition state.

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 In the original, the human narrator, operating at the scale of classical mechanics, contemplates the necessary choice between two mutually exclusive paths. In the parody, the photon, operating at the scale of quantum mechanics, readily explores both paths. At quantum scale, the "roads" and "yellow woods" are metaphorical.{{Citation needed}}
-The original contains two additional stanzas here, about choosing which road to take and sticking with that choice, which did not make it into the parody version.
+The original contains two additional stanzas about choosing which road to take and sticking with that choice, which did not make it into the parody version.
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 This comic is a parody of the first and fourth stanzas of {{w|Robert Frost}}'s 1915 poem "{{w|The Road Not Taken}}". The joke is that while the human narrator of Frost's poem (presumably Frost himself), confronted with two paths, could take only one of them and is left to [[584: Unsatisfied|contemplate the consequences of his choice]], the {{w|Photon|photonic}} narrator of the parody, thanks to {{w|Quantum superposition|quantum physics}}, is not compelled to choose one path over the other but can instead take both simultaneously, resulting in probabilistic {{w|quantum superposition}}, and is left to contemplate the consequences of ''that'' choice. {{w|Wave interference#Quantum interference|Quantum interference}}, referenced in the final line, is an effect of quantum superposition in which particles (including photons) interact with and influence themselves and other particles while in a superposition state.
-The title text humorously makes a portmanteau out of 'photon' and 'FOMO' (Fear Of Missing Out), the concern over lost opportunities from choosing one path over another or choosing neither.
+The title text humorously makes a portmanteau out of 'photon' and {{w|Fear of missing out|'FOMO' (Fear Of Missing Out)}}, the concern over lost opportunities from choosing one path over another or choosing neither.
 This comic was posted on April 14, [https://www.quantum.gov/happy-world-quantum-day-2025 World Quantum Day].

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 In the original, the human narrator reflects subjectively on the (anticipated?) impact of the choice of road - whether for good or ill is not explicitly stated. In the parody, the photon states objectively the result ({{w|Wave interference#Quantum interference|quantum interference}}) of taking both paths at once.
-The parody maintains the same rhyme scheme as the original, ABAAB. In the fourth line of the last stanza, "recombined" doesn't {{w|Perfect_and_imperfect_rhymes|perfectly}} rhyme with "sigh" and "I", but it shares the vowel in the last syllable, a form of {{w|assonance}}, and can be considered an {{w|Perfect_and_imperfect_rhymes#Imperfect_rhyme|imperfect rhyme}}.
+The parody maintains the same rhyme scheme as the original, ABAAB. In the fourth line of the last stanza, "recombined" doesn't {{w|Perfect_and_imperfect_rhymes|perfectly}} rhyme with "sigh" and "I", but it shares the vowel in the last syllable, a form of {{w|assonance}}, and can be considered an {{w|Perfect_and_imperfect_rhymes#Imperfect_rhyme|imperfect rhyme}}. The third and fourth lines of the first stanza also don't perfectly rhyme since the rhyming words are the same (this is instead called an identical rhyme).
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