Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26091970-20150604000724/@comment-25637142-20151001083711

110.76.69.202 wrote: ^^Conventional current makes sense if we take the current flow to be positive though; a hypothetical positron flow will follow the direction of conventional current. Electron flow will have to be by necessity in the opposite direction.

Besides we don't have to be like those of the past, not fixing mistakes just because they're widespread. People also thought the sun revolved around the Earth. Now no one teaches that anymore.

Not fixing trivial mistakes is one thing, not fixing detrimental mistakes is another.


 * The reason why they fixed the sun revolved the Earth is that it makes a difference in studying astronomical phenomenons such as the orbit of comets, planets and the likes. It's between mapping planets to orbit the stationary sun and mapping planets to orbit the moving sun. Using the second mapping, we would get a "terrestrial system" that changes the planetary members every season due to the wrong reference point.

It would be silly if that mistake wasn't fixed.

As for the case of current flow and this designation naming case, the impact would be trivial at best. Other than the slim possibility of Shinano being Large Carrier, I haven't seen any practical benefits. I'm still waiting for the justification why we have to bother ourselves with the upheaval (edit wars and people bitching at one another like left and right wing politicians on gay justice) ensuing the change.