• rumba@lemmy.zip
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    23 days ago

    So, it doesn't actually change anything; everything still works the same.

    But textbooks need to be thrown away and remade, every circuit diagram, every electrical engineering plan, decades of research and research papers have to be combed and corrected, or accept that they're wrong.

    While technically possible, it would create colossal risk and unending chaos and It's environmentally unsound, for something that doesn't change anything in the end.

    Lazy is not checking your mail.

    Refusing to turn reality on its head for a null change in the end is something else entirely.

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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    23 days ago

    Eh, i've struggled with this for years but eventually found my peace.

    You see, there's two types of electric current: Electrons moving through a wire, and protons moving through water (the second one is also called a pH gradient, it happens e.g. in cell membranes of chloroplasts, fascinating stuff, check it out).

    Basically plants do photosynthesis, which is extremely similar to what solar panels do. They generate an electric current, and in that current, positive charges move, so the "direction of current flow" is the correct one.

    I have come to accept that the current inside living beings is more important than the current in all the machinery, because without life there would be no machinery, so life deserves to get the "correct" current.

  • Dalvoron@lemmy.zip
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    24 days ago

    I guess it would work much more often, but also not all currents are electrons flowing (Eg ions, holes arguably). I doubt the convention causes much trouble for people

  • Riverside@reddthat.com
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    22 days ago

    Currents aren't drawn incorrectly. Electrons do move backwards, but since their electric charge is negative, the current goes the correct way.