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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“What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.” -Victor Hugo
“Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.” -Carl Sagan
Congratulations to Wendy, Rob and Jeremy.
Recipients of the 2009 Gruber Cosmology Prize
"This suggests a lack of Cepheids in the inner 2.5 kpc region of the Galactic disc except the [Nuclear Stellar Disc]." -N. Matsunaga et al.
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.