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Bill Turner wrote:
On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 18:37:01 +0100, "Ian White, G3SEK" wrote: "Don't worry, you'll learn to cope with it" - and so we did. _________________________________________________ ________ I am mildly curious how long this error will be propagated. Surely it will still be around after I'm gone, but will engineers five hundred or a thousand years still be defying logic? Faraday established the convention that "current" flows from "positive" to "negative" in 1834. Thomson discovered the electron in 1897, and found it had a negative charge. But even then, it was already far too late to think about changing the convention about "current". Scientists who had to work with electrons would have to learn to live with it. And if it was already too late in 1897... Not a big deal, but it is fascinating to me how nobody will take the bull by the horns and fix it. There really ain't much that's needful of fixin'. Electrical engineering was growing and thriving before electrons were discovered, and a century later, everything still works. Even "electronics" hardly ever has to think about electrons, or the sign of their charge. We're doing just fine, thank you. It's an untidy world, Bill. Please get over it... soon :-) -- 73 from Ian G3SEK 'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB) http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek |
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