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What does FQXi stand for? (What's the deal with the X?)
The F, Q, and I in our acronym FQXi come from the first letters in "The Foundational Questions Institute." The X symbol stands in for "Physics and Cosmology," our focus. The X symbol is also widely used in science to represent the "unknown quantity"—since an FQXi specialty is investigating unknown quantities.
What does FQXi stand for? (What's the deal with the X?)
The F, Q, and I in our acronym FQXi come from the first letters in "The Foundational Questions Institute." The X symbol stands in for "Physics and Cosmology," our focus. The X symbol is also widely used in science to represent the "unknown quantity"—since an FQXi specialty is investigating unknown quantities.