JTF’s interest in FQXi is based on the recognition that advances in physics and cosmology have had in the past, and surely will in the future, profound implications concerning our understanding of the deep or “ultimate” nature of our world. This sentiment is captured in our Scientific Charter: Foundational questions addressed by FQXi-funded researchers connect intimately with, and inform, science, philosophy, theology and religious belief systems, so their answers will have profound intellectual, practical, and spiritual implications for anyone with deep curiosity about the world’s true nature.