Martin Heidegger, a German Philosopher who authors “The Question Concerning Technology”,

envisioned technology as “a way of revealing”. Over the years, all of us have already witnessed the

significant impact that the technology has brought in our world. The technological innovation allowed

us to do, explore, and discover new things in various ways. The work of Daniel McNamara “A Return

to the Beginning”, which encapsulates different issues about our universe, proves that this claim of

Heidegger is true and how technology is a way of revealing.

Studying the very big

As we have never been to a star, we don’t know anything much about it. Our investigation of

the data they give to our senses is insufficient to study it entirely. Going beyond the visible light to the

non-visible, such as the infrared and ultraviolet ranges of the spectrum, will allow us to determine

whether the electromagnetic spectrum may provide more information and whether it can be captured

and evaluated. To that end, astronomers created a variety of instruments known as “telescopes”.

Eventually, “telescopes” that could capture data beyond the range of visible light was produced. These

are radio, ultraviolet, X-ray, and gamma-ray telescopes, all of which reveal something more and

something new about the celestial objects that generate these rays. These technologies are not only

capable of getting data and discoveries about stars, but about the entire Cosmos as well. Radio

astronomy has helped scientists to unlock the current understanding of the Big Picture. The same tool

that Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson used to discover that radio transmission signals were coming

from all directions in the sky and that the power of these radio waves was quite weak.

Meanwhile, astronomer Edwin Hubble was trying to resolve a mystery about puffs of cloud

material seen in the telescopes in his time and earlier decades. These puffy and cloudy objects were

seen through the bigger telescopes that could see fainter and farther objects with more clarity. Due to

their form, they had gotten the name nebula, Latin for “cloud”. However, after years of observing

these objects, harnessing specialized instruments, Hubble reported that these objects were not clouds,

but galaxies, which are clusters of stars.

 In this first issue, we could tell that by harnessing the technology produced by the astronomers

which is the “telescopes”, we were able to understand not just the stars but the entire universe better.

It helped scientists unlock the current understanding of the Big Picture and information about radio

transmission signals. Moreover, these technologies also helped Edwin Hubble to resolve a mystery

about puffs of cloud material seen in the telescopes and this is when the galaxies are discovered,

which are clusters of stars.

Seeing the universe in a new light

Cosmologists once more turned to new technology and new ways of viewing the Cosmos to test

the predictions that the universe is homogenous whose geometry is flat. They used new technologies,

which were not new in and of themselves but were new in how they were applied to astronomy. X-rays

are known for almost a century when they were utilized to tell us about the Universe. X-ray telescopes

collected X-rays emitted by the stars. Since X-rays are more powerful than visible light, the X-rays

detected were either coming from more energetic than ordinary stars, or they were coming from

ordinary stars that were located far away.

In the late 1990s, the Boomerang Infrared instrument, which was designed to study more

closely the radiation from the Big Bang, was utilized in conjunction with the Hubble Space Telescope

and the X-ray Space Telescope. What was now known as the Standard Theory of Cosmology was

validated and greatly expanded by the Hubble and X-ray telescopes. They discovered that not only

was our cosmos flat, but it was also accelerating. The existence of some sort of "dark energy" causes

the galaxies to accelerate, so that even as the original energy is dispersed in time, the galaxies were

not slowing down but rather accelerating.

In this matter, we could see the relation of technology with examining and discovering if the

universe is homogenous and geometrically flat. Using X-rays telescopes, scientists detected the X-rays

emitted by the stars. Also, the Boomerang Infrared instrument in connection with the Hubble Space

and X-ray Space Telescope validated and expanded the Standard Theory of Cosmology. They also
discovered that our cosmos was also accelerating and that some kind of “dark energy” exists that

makes the galaxies accelerate.

Conclusion

Overall, technology has become the primary instrument of scientists to discover and study our

universe better. It has an enormous relation with the discoveries and revelations regarding the

universe from hundreds of years ago. Using the different types of telescopes, we were able uncover

and reveal crucial information and new phenomenon about the Cosmos. We go beyond ways because

of the desire and eagerness to look, study, and understand the universe. Technology is indeed a way of

revealing in different aspects of life. It helps discloses the world's truth and discovers something new

without concealment. Technology has been beneficial to all of these because in pursuit of the ideal life,

we were able to develop innovations that would make life simpler, more comfortable, and more

enriching.