Cosmic fantasies and Where to Find Them 

From the vantage point of a tiny speck of cosmic dust, Earth, humanity has made  commendably robust deductions  about  cosmic history, composition and architecture  across unimaginably vast scales of space and time. Howsoever remarkable, the underlying simplistic, phenomenological model leaves the door wide open to exploring many fascinating and exotic possibilities that observations can adjudicate. I point to some  that my research has dwelt on and some more that I wish I had the time to explore.