Start with an analogy: We've never seen a car before but find one, learn how to drive it, and are amazed, and ask "How does this amazing thing work?". We study the rubber in the tires, the disk brakes, the air conditioning, the universal joints, differential, the transmission, the pistons.<p>Then we see the box that has the computer for controlling the fuel injection and ignition and start to take it apart to see how it works when one of us says:<p>"Stop. In broad terms, I can tell you how it works: It does what it needs to do so that the car can work. But by now we have gone so deep into how this car works that it is time to ask<p>What is the purpose of this car?"<p>The universe as it seems from current astronomy, ..., is one huge and intricate construction. Sorry, but tough to believe that all of this has no purpose.<p>Ah, two possibilities:<p>(1) We really are the <i>center</i> of the universe and the only life.<p>There is a lot less to the universe than what seems from current astronomy. In particular, objects we can never reach due to the speed of light limit are just fake, something like a painted screen.<p>(2) We have not found it yet, but there is a way to violate the speed of light. The whole universe is ours for the taking once we see how to exceed the speed of light. There is a <i>game</i>: For the laws of physics, how long will it take for life to develop to understand these laws and, in particular, how to exceed the speed of light?<p>For either of (1) or (2), maybe we should start a new subject, <i>super cosmology</i>, that assumes that the universe has a purpose. We look for that purpose and, for each discovery we make, e.g., dark matter, quantum mechanics, black holes, quasars, gravitational waves, ..., ask what its role is in the purpose of the universe.