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Originally Posted by Nesti
But I'm still left with the same issue in my mind; why are the "conventions" the way they are...probably too big-a-question to answer.
To me, sundials and wind directions are all perfectly explainable in the context of earth's rotation with respect to a northern aspect versus a southern aspect (Sundials), and movement with respects to mass distribution (coriolis)...these are not a mystery. Even the idea that matter succeeded anti-matter has some logical behavior...but a 50/50 coin toss of a right handed universe over a left handed universe gets me.
The simple notion that the universe (at least some of it's properties) could have been different, without conflict, presents some deeper questioning.
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I think you will find that, indeed, it is "too big a question to answer"
today with
any certainty based on current knowledge and will probably be linked to the
formation of the universe during the very early stages of the Big Bang itself.
As you allude to, it is possibly related to aspects of the Big Bang epoch
such as matter-antimatter asymmetry that took the Universe, that we know and
love today, in one "direction" rather than the other. Much has been theorized and
written about why this may have been and quantum fluctuations during the
inflationary period may be at the heart of it.
This field of physics is evolving so rapidly that perhaps someone who tries to
keep abreast of the literature may have a better response to the one I have
just provided above.