Prioritize Big‑Science for Cosmic Unknowns

The public conversation about scientific priorities should foreground the catalog of fundamental cosmology gaps (inflation trigger, dark matter particle, dark energy nature, Hubble tension, first stars/galaxies, reionization, cosmic magnetogenesis, baryogenesis, and primordial gravitational waves). Framing these as a concise list helps justify coordinated, large‑scale investments (telescopes, CMB missions, 21‑cm arrays, space gravitational‑wave detectors) and international collaboration to preserve leadership in basic physics. — A transparent list of unresolved cosmic problems makes funding and diplomatic choices legible to voters and lawmakers, turning abstract physics into concrete policy tradeoffs over budgets, industrial strategy, and international science cooperation.