Check Out The Confusing Meaning Of Elon Musk & Grimes’ Children’s Names

Tesla and SpaceX CEO; Elon Musk and his musician partner; Grimes, caused confusion online over their first baby’s name, which they named “X Æ A-12 Musk.

According to The Guardian, there’s been speculation that the child’s original name violated California law, which stipulates that only the 26 letters of the alphabet can be used. The new appellation would seem to fit the rule of law, swapping as it does a 12 for a Xii. Neither Musk nor Grimes has confirmed this as the reason, though in responding to an Instagram comment about the CA mandate, Grimes wrote, “Roman numerals. Looks better tbh.”

Using the roman numerals for 12 instead of the modern English symbols won’t change the pronunciation. And that’s a shame because even the parents don’t seem sure how to say their baby’s name. Mom had explained that the “X” stood for “unknown variable,” and that Æ is the Elven spelling of AI, meaning artificial intelligence. Grimes wrote, “It’s just X, like the letter X. Then AI. Like how you said the letter A then I.”

Grimes said her difficult pregnancy with her and Musk’s first child, X Æ A-12, or X, prompted the parents to have their second child via surrogate. “I hemorrhaged,” she said. “It was scary.Elon Musk and Grimes welcomed their second child, a baby girl who they name Exa Dark Sideræl.

The duo said they were inspired by supercomputing, dark matter, and ‘deep space time’ when choosing their one-of-a-kind name for their newborn daughter Exa Dark Sideræl, whom they are calling ‘Y’ for short.

According to Grimes, the baby girl’s three names are all rooted in science, with one nod to the singer’s love of Lord of the Rings and elven mythology.

The decimal prefix ‘exa’ denotes the number one quintillion, which is defined in the U.S. as 1000000000000000000 or 1 followed by 18 zeros.

FLOPS, meanwhile, is an abbreviation of floating-point operations per second. It refers to the theoretical peak performance of computers.

Their daughter’s second name, Dark, is a nod to dark matter and ‘the unknown.’

‘People fear it but truly it’s the absence of photons. Dark matter is the beautiful mystery of our universe,’ Grimes told the magazine.

Dark matter is an invisible substance that is thought to comprise 85 percent of the universe’s mass, according to NASA.

It is thought to be the gravitational glue that holds the galaxies together, though it has never been directly observed by scientists.

The enigmatic material is invisible because it does not absorb, reflect, or emit light.

Astronomers have been able to infer its existence because of its gravitational effects on the known matter — any physical substance that has mass and takes up space. A smartphone and the human body are both examples of matter.

‘Shine a torch in a completely dark room, and you will see only what the torch illuminates. That does not mean that the room around you does not exist. Similarly, we know dark matter exists but have never observed it directly,’ The European Space Agency explained in a 2013 article.

Last year, Musk told Time that the couple was “semi-separated,” but Grimes said the relationship remains in flux. “I would probably refer to him as my boyfriend, but we’re very fluid. We live in separate houses. We’re best friends. We see each other all the time,” she said. “We just have our own thing going on, and I don’t expect other people to understand it.” She added that they want “at least three or four” children.