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Re:Why does current flow the opposite way from the electrons? by joquarky on Saturday June 22, 2024 @01:40PM (#40760704)
Put simply, "the map is not the territory"
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Re:Why does current flow the opposite way from the electrons? by trelane on Saturday June 22, 2024 @03:26PM (#40761471)
Or, as Monty Python has rightly pointed out, "it's only a model."
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Re:Why does current flow the opposite way from the electrons? by kazinator on Saturday June 22, 2024 @07:40PM (#40763267)
It would be a bad convention for a map to use valleys to represent mountains.
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Re:Why does current flow the opposite way from the electrons? by coldtea on Sunday June 23, 2024 @09:06AM (#40767203)
If that just a nominal change, such as just switching the color convention it uses for montains vs valleys, then it would be fine.

And that's the case with positive/negative.

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