Hang-on-hang-on, I'm still unsure as to why nature's disposition ("convention") on electromagnetism didn't go the opposite way, and that science's understanding didn't produce a left hand rule instead of the right hand rule.
I understand that theory is governed by observation, and theory tries to explain trusted tendencies (laws), but what if 150 years ago the observation were the opposite; what if a current produced a clockwise rotation if viewed from downstream (a left hand rule)? Conversely the current left hand rule would simply be replaced by the right for those applications they pertain.
My question really is, why is there a lopsidedness? Get what I mean, or am I missing something obvious here?
Further, I would completely understand if the old idea of an Ether Wind existed, then - as with Coriolis Effect - there would be a simple answer...a left hand effect or a right hand effect could be attributable to the angle a field was relative to an ether wind, but the ether wind [apparently] does not exist. So, I'm just confused as to why it is right is favored over left.
I'm right handed, but I fly with my left hand. What does that mean?!
