How would you even define what is clockwise or not if there is no other particle as a reference? You can look at it from the other side and say it's spinning in

How would you even define what is clockwise or not if there is no other particle as a reference? You can look at it from the other side and say it's spinning in the opposite direction. I think it's enough to say that it was spinning. There was an imbalance tending toward a direction.