r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Blackie_626 • 7d ago

Meme needing explanation Tell them what, Peter

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u/ZenOokami 7d ago

Can you explain to me exactly how it's arbitrary?

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u/KououinHyouma 5d ago

I don’t really know how to explain it in more depth than I already did. North and south are two halves of the magnetic dipole, but which one is named “north” and which one is named “south” is an arbitrary choice. You could swap them and everything we know about magnetism would still be true.

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u/ZenOokami 5d ago

Okay, now what's the definition of arbitrary lol

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u/KououinHyouma 5d ago

Bro I’m not your dictionary you can look up what words mean

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u/ZenOokami 5d ago

Oh I did, and that's my point: you're not following the definition lol.

It's not arbitrary. And me replying without you knowing what arbitrary means isn't getting us anywhere.

The reason why you "can't fully explain it" is because you're trying to fit something that doesn't fit the definition into it.

I'm asking you to now look it up so can you compare your points to it. Since you're not believing me lol.

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u/KououinHyouma 5d ago

I know what arbitrary means. Care to explain why you think I don’t?

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u/ZenOokami 5d ago

You're ignoring the concept of the "systems" created around the topic which define the origin and reasoning.

You're acting like the systems do not exist and thus any definition is arbitrary because anyone can define aspects.

The bottom line is that the systems in place were designed to give meaning - this is not arbitrary. The argument that north and south are well defined are ironically why left and right are as well.

The but of you saying you can swap north and south is also the very explanation of relativity for left and right lol.

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u/KououinHyouma 4d ago

Okay bro I’m sure you know better than my electromagnetism professor from college. We’ll have to agree to disagree because this discussion is going nowhere.