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Hello, I saw a picture online and I'm trying to figure out what it means.

Here is the photo.

Can someone please decipher?

It looks like it could have been been printed on a piece of fabric, maybe a T-shirt.

Thanks in advance!
 
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I think its a joke about being able to draw the Greek lower-case symbol "xi" correctly : ##\xi##, something us physicists never really learn...
 
Lol! I think you're right!
 
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