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The work that we do at FQxI is only possible because of the generous donations that we have received over the years. The work we support is high-risk, high-reward, and outside of the remit of the short-term thinking of national funding agencies. Support our work to help keep science open-minded, inquisitive, and optimistic.
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FQxI runs grant programs that have awarded over $29 Million to 650 researchers and outreach specialists.
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FQxI hosts competitions to engage all who are interested in questions at the foundation of science, be they high-profile academics, students, or people outside of academia and science institutes who are interested in these questions.
We encourage high-risk, high-reward work in which scientists dream big and then get to work testing their ideas.
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PressRelease: Precision experiment puts pressure on quantum collapse theories
Quantum mechanics, the theory governing the microscopic world, is famously counterintuitive. A particle can exist in a superposition of multiple states, such as different positions, until a measurement is performed. At that point, the wavefunction describing that particle appears to ‘collapse’ to a single outcome. This puzzle lies at the heart of the measurement problem, famously illustrated by Schrödinger’s cat, suspended between life and death until observed. The XENONnT detector, which was designed to be sensitive to rare physics events, has tightened constraints on one family of possible solutions to the measurement problem, known as ‘collapse theories.’ The work, which was partially funded by FQxI, was reported in Physical Review Letters in March 2026. Image credit: XENON Collaboration.