In six words.
Like this:
"Observe extragalactic Cepheids pulsate.
Measure H0."
h/t David Brin with a special thanks to PZ.
No, not that PZ, the real PZ.
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Get stimulus funding. Pay summer salary.
Detect gravitational waves. Win Nobel prize!
Use Buzzwords: LSST, ALMA, TMT, GSMT
Go deep with big telescope.
Find dark matter particles. Be famous.
more seriously:
Find stars between galaxies. Probe interactions.
Find progenitor galaxies to Milky Way.
Measure stellar initial final mass relation.
Discover dark matter mini-halos directly.
Simulate first galaxies. Include physics. Reionize.
Finish the Scientific Revolution
Wash, rinse, document, repeat.
Define the Universe. Give three examples.
More seriously:
Find Earthlike planet around another star.
Detect Higgs boson, win Nobel Prize.
Find cancer cure, run clinical trial.
Underpants gnome. Science!
(I only needed three.)
Observe a pulsar: watch for accretion.
Pulsar wind meets ISM: bow shock?
Understand motivic ternary-mology. Derive CKM matrix.
Got GALEX SPITZER CHANDRA. Need HST.
Clown porn actor seeks God's love?
We propose to shift the paradigm.
I would claim the h0 is two words!
This is a real NSF proposal boiled down to six words:
Telescopes in classrooms. Look for supernovae.
Measure neutron star mass, radius.