Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
...problems such as racism and homophobia. Such an application would be remarkable to help see the causes and consistencies of such controversial societal subjects. Again it is important to realize that this conjecture is completely subjective and may have no relevance to these topics at all. It is due to this uncertainty in science, that enables us to examine these issues as the result of Heisenbergs proven scientific principle. In each of these examples it will be assumed that a racist or homophobe, could in fact base their beliefs on the trends of the entire group rather than getting to know the individuals within this group. Also it may bring into question that the causes of racism and homophobia is the inability to understand the individual similarly to the inability to understand the single subatomic particle. Racism is the belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others. In order to establish the relationship between Heisenbergs Uncertainty Principle and Racism you have to examine a racists reasoning for why they chose this certain belief. By doing so, it will be visible to see whether or not the racist beliefs are really caused by a general view of a group or rather by a specific account of an individual among this group. If it is discovered that one racist bases his belief on generalizations of a group, Heisenbergs principle remains true in the fact that this racist creates opinions based on group trends similarly to the way scientist created trends based on large groups of particles. However if the racist’s beliefs are based upon a single individual, relating racism to uncertainty gets a bit confusing. The inability to fully understand a single subatomic particle perhaps links to the racist’s cause for hating that individual. This cause simply being that he does not fully understand the person and as result hates every person within that race. If this is true than once again Heisenbergs principle achieves a certain subjective significance. It can be said that the racist holds these ideals because he misunderstands a single individual among a race; just as the scientists misunderstand the properties of a single subatomic particle. These explanations simply show the potential subjective significance of Heisenbergs scientific principle. They establish a connection between the subjective field of racism and the objective field of science. Due to the daunting task of polling thousands of individuals racists to see why they hold their beliefs, it is impossible to say whether or not relating the principle of uncertainty to racism has any truth behind it. Eventually, you would come across a racist who held their beliefs due to neither group stereotypes or individual misunderstandings. Conceivably they could be racist as a result of numerous other factors. A child brought up in a home of racists will most likely become racist without initially even understanding why he holds these beliefs. In this case Heisenbergs principle cannot be related to racism subjectively because the child isn't old enough to make general judgments about a group, nor does he know any individuals of that race to misunderstand. The whole point of this paragraph is to display the subjectivity of the argument. It can be argued both ways. On one hand racism could be directly related to a subjective understanding of Heisenbergs Uncertainty Principle, but on the other it cant. A conclusion can be drawn, based on uncertainty stating that maybe racism is based on generations and maybe it isn't. Maybe racism is based on misunderstanding the individual and maybe it isn't. The bottom line is that you can subjectively connect the uncertainty principle with any social subject and create some significance. If someone were to put an objective spin to this subjective relationship between racism and Heisenbergs uncertainty and conduct a empirical experiment to determine whether or not this relationship was indeed true, the results could be extraordinary. The outcome could show that a subjective interpretation of the Uncertainty Principle could be supported objectively. Thus creating proof of a subjective idea making it objective. The significance is overwhelming because you would basically would be proving an idea that once was believed to be impossible. We can also apply Heisenberg’s Uncertainty principle to other social subjects such as homophobia. Homophobia can be defined as fear of or contempt for lesbians and gay men. Sexism similarly to racism is a very broad and in depth subject. The focus will remain a conjecture on how a subjective view of the Uncertainty Principle can relate to causes of homophobia. Homophobia in relation to racism deals with making judgments based on a particular characteristic of a group of people. Racism deals with color, while homophobia deals with sexual preference. Like racism it will be impossible in this paper to objectively prove anything, but the goal is to draw connections between the Uncertainty Principle and causes of homophobia. By doing so we can support the idea that objective science such as Heisenberg's do in fact have significant social applications. The reasons why people are homophobic will certainly vary based on the individual. Among these reasons, there is a possibility that causes of homophobia are the fact that these homophobes make broad judgments on a entire group of homosexuals. If this is the case then we can relate Heisenbergs principle to the causes of homophobia. If a homophobe draws his conclusions from general homosexual stereotypes, it can be said that this person forms conclusions based on the group instead of the individual. This of course ties back to Heisenberg forming trends of particles based on large groups. The connection between objective and subjective is again achieved through this example because of the assumption that some homophobes may hold their beliefs due to generalizations of homosexuals. Further support of this connection could be achieved by saying that another group of homophobes may retain their beliefs due to their misunderstandings of a single homosexual. If this is the case, then again Heisenbergs Uncertainty principle maintains subjective significance. The homophobe bases his beliefs on all homosexuals from his misunderstanding of a single individual among that group. Similarly Heisenberg discovered that it was impossible to fully understand both the...