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Misnomers and historical relics in science
    #14878051 - 08/05/11 06:04 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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Re: Misnomers and historical relics in science [Re: DieCommie]
    #14878193 - 08/05/11 06:35 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

> There is also the famous charge vs current issue.  Current is defined as the opposite direction in electrons travel.

This isn't true.  Current can be defined either direction, with or against the direction that electrons travel.  The math works out fine, as long as the user is consistent.  To make matters worse, electrical engineers typically use the definition you gave while general science texts (and electrical engineers that work with semiconductors) typically use the opposite.

Another one that annoys me is the use of "the flow of current".  Current is the flow of charge, thus "the flow of current" literally translates to "the flow of the flow of charge" which is almost never correct.

> Please post one if you can think of it.

Using the analogy of planets orbiting a sun to explain how electrons "orbit" an atom.

> What all this means to me is that we, as scientists, need to carefully consider our nomenclature.

Unfortunately, I think a lot of the problems occur because those teaching science (not so much at the college level) don't really have a deep understanding of what they are teaching.  Not only the teachers, but the text books that are used.  Absolutely horrid.

Regarding the theory of evolution, I really wish they would start calling it the law of evolution.  At this point, there really is no question that evolution occurs.  No, man did not evolve from apes (another misnomer that annoys me), but apes and man did evolve from a common ancestor.  Unfortunately, the religious nuts will never let this one go, so we are stuck with the "theory" rather than the "law".

It is amazing how much religion has stifled mankind.  We are literally hundreds, if not thousands of years behind where we could be, scientifically, because of religion.  Sickening.


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Re: Misnomers and historical relics in science [Re: Seuss]
    #14880890 - 08/06/11 11:51 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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Seuss said:
It is amazing how much religion has stifled mankind.  We are literally hundreds, if not thousands of years behind where we could be, scientifically, because of religion.  Sickening.



I've always felt this way myself.  But theres no way I'd say it to my extremely religious father!  Its hard enough for him that I turned my back on the fairy tales and started living in reality 20 years ago.
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