Are people really this stupid?

>>7154641
well do you have a good way to describe left and right?

your east and west

>>7154642
Left: Sinistral side of the body; West when facing north
Right: Dextral side of the body; East when facing north

>>7154641
>>7154645

explain the color red without using its name then, asshole

>>7154645
using the latin words for left and right just shifts the problem

>>7154646
An electromagnetic wave consisting of oscillating electric and magnetic fields reflected off the surface of an object, with a frequency of 4 x 10^14 Hz on the visible light spectrum.

>>7154648
It isn't the same as a subjective direction. In their anatomical definitions, those areas of your body are established and unchanging. The sinistral side of your body is still the sinistral side of your body, whether or not "left" is left and "right" is right, as it is still that particular region of your body.

Also the whole "west when facing north/east when facing north" spiel.

>>7154646
>>7154649
get rekt son

>>7154642
Define forward=0
Left=π/2
Right=3π/2

>>7154657
Only if you're rotating left, dumbass. That doesn't solve the problem.

>>7154661
Mathematical convention is that angles are measured anti-clockwise, noob.

Since when does water not have a taste?

>>7154663

Personally I have got no idea what water tastes like since I have never tasted it pure and normally you mostly taste the contaminants in it.

>>7154662
a convention isn't a physical fact.
there is also the convention which side is called left and wich one right. that doesn't mean there is something intrinsic about those directions.

>>7154663
>>7154669
I can tell you firsthand that pure water (from a laboratory) tastes like shit and absolutely not like nothing

>>7154684
In HS they told us that it was real dangerous to drink that shit.

>>7154642
Why did you derail the thread nigger? It was about *the difference* between left and right.

>>7154646
>>7154649
ouch...

>>7154735
yeah that is wrong.

>>7154735
Only in large quantities because then you're disrupting the concentration of minerals in your blood as you are essentially diluting it.

>>7154642
rotate pi/2 clockwise for right
rotate pi/2 anti-clockwise for left

WOW SO LE HARD

>>7154642
>raise one of your hands
>that's right, the other one is left
The same way we tell it children, dipshit.

>tumblr doesn't know what a qualia is
cute!

I remember a feynman lecture or talk about left/right vs up/down in physics, the question being why a mirror reverses one way but not the other

define an axis stretching from your head along your neck and down through your torso

define the endpoint of the axis at your head to be the top

define a vector pointing outward orthogonal to the axis

define all observations of rotation to be observed from the head point of the axis looking along the axis

rotation of that vector around the axis in a positive, clockwise direction defines the direction associated with "left" relative to the original endpoint of the vector. "right" is negative rotations.

>>7154642

looking straight, left is the side where your heart is in your body. right is the other part.

>>7154777
That's an example not a description.

>>7154645
>>7154657
>>7154765
All these definitions require defintions you dumbos.

Particle physics brought up a way to define those, interestingly, as the weak interactions violates parity (meaning if you mirror the whole experiment the outcome would change). That way you could actually define left/right.

>>7154641
Eh, language is self-referential and based on neural patterns, thus unable to map reality perfectly. News at 11.

>>7154849
great professor, now define 'clockwise' without using 'left' or 'right'

>>7154649
Meaningless. If your were blind an I give you the physical properties of the light that makes up red it gets you no closer to understanding the qualitative properties of the color red.

I'm trying to describe what red looks like, not what red IS.

Contain your autism.

>>7154977
We can consider two closed universe systems: Blind consciousness and normal.
Since blind never experienced vision, he does not have laws of vision entitled to his consciousness, including therefor.
Trying to force him the concept of color would be like trying to force understanding of emotion to a rock

>>7154975
>look at the clock
great professor, now define 'clock' without using 'im' or 'a' or 'retard'

>>7154646
>>7154649
raped/10

>>7154820
A mirror doesn't reverse an image.

>>7155135
It does. It reverses forward and backward.

>>7155135
How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real?

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>>7154980

>>7154980
That guy got smoked, twice

>>7155141
>what is reflection

>>7154934
>All these definitions require defintions

Literally everything requires definition you mongoloid.

Define "the" without using the word "the", faggot.

>>7154642

Right: The direction you are reading this text in.
Left: opposite direction to right.

Left, where the heart is.
Right, where the liver hurts.

>>7154645
You still need to say what is west and east. My way would be
Left is where your heart is, right is the other side

>>7155826
My heart is in San Francisco.

>>7155695
>denoting one or more people or things already mentioned or assumed to be common knowledge.

>>7154657
Would right not be -π/2?

>>7155695
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/the

Get rekt faggot

>ITT: People who think playing language games makes them clever

>>7154642
Given a measurement system where one circle is 360 degrees and the starting point is the current direction of your eyes
Right: 90 degrees clockwise
Left: 90 degrees counter clockwise

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>>7154849

>>7154761
If you drink a lot of it then the concentration of minerals in your body will be less than that in your body. It's basically Le Shit-lord's principal. I can't spell it correctly so I spell it like that.

>>7154980
Rekkkkkkt

>>7154645
>sinistral
>dextral

implying those aren't literally left and right

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>>7154641
>ITT reddit philosophers making the profound discovery that if we try to describe things in words, without defining any words, we have a hard time.
>OMG SUCH GENIUS WOW!

>>7154735
Th real reason they said that was because they didn't want you to waste school funds on DI drinking water

>>7156111

>trips

>>7154641
There is a symmetry breaking particle that's talked about in the last lecture I believe of the first in the series of the Feynman lectures on physics which can be used as an objective definite marker for left and right.

>>7154642
Electroweak symmetry breaking

>>7156278

BA DUM TSCH

>>7154642
Social Democrats and Tories

>asshole
>dumbass
>noob
>nigger
>you dumbos
>your autism
>retard
>you mongoloid
>faggot
welcome to /sci/

I have a coordinate system about my body on which the directions "left" and "right" are defined. Given a map which continuously transforms my coordinate system onto the body of another person, like you, the image of my "left" under the transformation is your "left" and the image of my "right" under the transformation is your "right".

Please spread this coordinate system to others so we can efficiently communicate while foraging and hunting and so forth.

>>7156401
Stop forcing your arbitrary culturally-biased coordinate systems onto other people. If you can't see how this is problematic, you're a shitlord.

Dimensions are a social construct.

>>7154850
The heart is in the center though. The left side is just thought to be where it is because the left heart is larger, handling most of the circulation while the right only services the lungs (and upstream, the veins).

>>7154777
what if the person is left handed?

>>7156409
Your philosophy is impairing group cohesion and possibly our ability to collect food quickly. Please stop before we suffer the consequences.

>>7154977
>>7154646
You got fucking destroyed.

>>7154642
Objects which are "left" of me are a shorter distance from my eye which lies closest to my heart than my eye which lies farthest from my heart. Objects which are "right" of me are a shorter distance from my eye which lies farthest from my heart than my eye which lies closest to my heart.

>>7154645
Where is north when you're in space

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>>7156412
If the left half is larger, it's not central, is it?

>>7156536
>If the left half is larger, it's not central, is it?
I was taught that the heart is central, but since it pumps out the left side, you can feel your heartbeat left of center.
Then again, I went to Vo-Tech, not med school.

>>7156412
>The heart is in the center
Lrn2gross-anatomy

>>7154735
I work in a lab and one of my techs refuses to drink tea or coffee made with distilled water because of this, she thinks it dilutes the minerals in your body and won't accept that we get minerals in food. I have tried explaining it to her but alas she is retartad.

seriously? this is /sci/, you guys should know enough physics to be able to define left and right in terms of elementary particles.

just define it in terms of the chirality of the neutrino, since they only rotate one way.

This is assuming that we already have a definition of matter and antimatter, if not then use some C violating process to determine which one is matter.

Assuming we have the definition of which way is forward in time to work with.

>>7154641
>>7154642
Right is the average man's dominant hand
Left is the average man's non dominant hand

>>7154980
you

i like you

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lmao bunch of pseudo intellectuals in this thread.

>>7154849
>positive, clockwise

>>7154980
Autism.

*Protip: Try explaining colors with emotions*

>>7154641
Hold out both of your hands, palms facing out, fingers spread.
Clench your middle, ring and pinky fingers.

The index and thumb resembling the letter 'L' are on your left hand.