How do you define left and right?

Question

Sounds easy, but how can you define left and right without saying 'left' or 'right'??

Some very good answers! I has forgotten about the old making an 'L' with your left hand!
The way I would describe it is - Left is the side of your body the heart is on......

Answer 1

hold your thumb and index fingers out on both hands in an L shape. the left hand looks like an L, the right hand is reversed. so L for left

Answer 2

I'm reminded of a joke. An Irishman is seeking work, and his friend is giving him the gen on how to go about it. 'Look' he says 'the foreman will say "whiich is my right hand?" Now what you got to do is put out your left hand and say, "that's your right hand." If you do that you'll be all right.

The time comes, he's on the construction site, and he's being questioned by the foreman, who is rubbing and wringing his hands because it is cold morning. When he asks the predicted question the poor Irishman blurts out, 'Don't mix them up, don't mix them up!'

Remember the story of Jonah, yes him of the whale fame. he sulked because God did not destroy Ninevah, and this is what God told him, ..'Should I not be sorry for Ninevah with its hundred and twenty thousand people who can not tell their right hand from their left...' And how many little children do you know who put their shoes on the wrong feet?

When my daughter was young, rather than left and right I would differentiate her limbs with Mr and Mrs. Sne has taken that on her self and will use brother and sister, even though now she has no problem with left and right.

Left and right are directional differentations, orientated in a forward direction, that no matter in which direction the person is facing their left and right will always be the same.

Without using left and right, you would have to say something like, for any person there is a constant directional differentaion about the axis, that is based on the direction in which he is facing, and he can orientate by the same rule any object that he can indicate.

Oh well, best just keep to saying left and right.

Answer 3

Observe the direction in which electrons are emitted in the decay of supercooled cobalt-60 nuclei. The B-flux (electrons) is not symnetric for spin up and spin down Co atoms. For the weak force nature is antisymnetric. All the other answers fail as observation in a mirror would conserve parity!

Answer 4

in the physical plane we exist on-- every earth-like planet has a north star that is actually north and is actually owing to the tilt of the planet as it exists from its equator owing to which directional hemispheric rotational axis points most readily toward it in association w/ the gateway that is essentially the reverse rationale behind how really--- on the other side aka heaven we are mostly left handed individuals

Answer 5

Look in the mirror and turn your head counterclockwise...that is your left. In the reality of the mirror it becomes the opposite, your right. It's easy as well as confusing....especially if the clock is in the mirror as well. These kinds of questions and experiments make life extremely interesting.

Answer 6

You look at your shoes, if they curl out ways youve probable got the Right one on the Left foot. Now you know which one is Right so the other must be left.
So if you now have to give directions tell the person to follow their feet.
Confused? I was

Answer 7

At first, I was going to say Left is right and right is wrong. But I can just say turn here or there.

Answer 8

i would define it as the way you would open your eyes left is to your left right to your right looking out from your head

Answer 9

Hold your left hand up and make an "L" with your fingers pointing straight up and your thumb pointing right.

Answer 10

That's easy, make an L with your thumb and forefinger,this is your left hand!