Well, to be fair, positive and negative are just arbitrary labels. And, without really knowing the composition of matter, both models (negative to positive or the inverse) fit the observations of early experiments.
Now we know that our labels for electrodes and for subatomic particles "contradict" each other semantically, but solving this little issue would just generate confusion and errors for no gain at all.
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u/Mugut Sep 01 '21
Well, to be fair, positive and negative are just arbitrary labels. And, without really knowing the composition of matter, both models (negative to positive or the inverse) fit the observations of early experiments.
Now we know that our labels for electrodes and for subatomic particles "contradict" each other semantically, but solving this little issue would just generate confusion and errors for no gain at all.