I wonder how related or not-related this is to static attraction (eg: bending a water stream by placing your finger near the stream from a running tap.) Also,

I wonder how related or not-related this is to static attraction (eg: bending a water stream by placing your finger near the stream from a running tap.) Also, his 90 degree illustration immediately brought to mind the "3-D Loser" hand gesture we learned in school to remember the direction of positive / negative electrical flow. Googling that brought me to http://montessorimuddle.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Right_hand_rule_cross_product.png http://montessorimuddle.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Right... and quite satisfactorily also connected it to the Lorentz Force with this version of the illustration: http://montessorimuddle.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Right_hand_rule_cross_product.png http://montessorimuddle.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Right...