“ FQXi funding is therefore aimed at supporting research that is both foundational (with potentially significant and broad implications for our understanding of the deep or “ultimate” nature of reality) and unconventional (enabling research that, because of its speculative, non-mainstream, or high-risk nature, would otherwise go unperformed due to lack of funding). ”
FQXi: Foundational Questions in Physics & Cosmology (a private foundation that’s partially supporting Garrett Lisi).
