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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)
 
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)
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:Added World Quantum Day to the article. Thanks. [[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk: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). [[Special:Contributions/104.23.172.2|104.23.172.2]] 07:19, 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). [[Special:Contributions/104.23.172.2|104.23.172.2]] 07:19, 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)

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)

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)