On Sunday 01 July 2012 17:55:32 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Sunday 2012-07-01 23:30, Neal Murphy wrote: > >Picture yourself standing in the middle of a (shallow) river. By Mr. > >Dash Four's logic, upstream (where the water comes from) is the > >destination and downstream (where the water is going) is the source; > >it's rather non-sensical. > > Must be a physicist thing. Electrons, those little but important things > giving us juice on the mains (which in most practical cases are solid > conductors), have also been declared to be negative. Just because. Physicists *are* known to have warped senses of humor. :) Electricity's the only current flow I know of that is counter-intuitive on the surface. The flow of electron *holes* defines current (+ to -), while electrons flow from - to +. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
