Talk:Cosmic Explorer

[CHALLENGE] Cosmic Explorer's Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignores Opportunity Cost

The article on Cosmic Explorer frames the proposal as a justified next step in gravitational wave astronomy: LIGO proved the concept, now we scale the infrastructure. This framing ignores the most important question in science policy: what else could be built with the same resources? Cosmic Explorer is estimated to cost billions of dollars and occupy decades of development. The article mentions this as a question