[R-390] Current Direction

[jcoward5452 at aol.com]

Dear Readers,
At some point in time some person smarter than I,asigned charge names 
for the phenomina that they observed.The atomic structure of the atom 
was likewise studied and charges were assesed to the various elemental 
bits of the atom.(The're still doing this BTW and getting paid well for 
the effort).In any case, someone figured out that like charges repell 
and unlike charges attract.Simple.
  In a vacuum tube, there is the element known as the cathode.It's 
purpose is to boil off electrons.There are many types of cathode 
material,and meny ways to stimulate them to emmit free electrons which 
have a negative charge.There is another important element called the 
anode which is elevated in potential positivly with respect to our warm 
glowing cathode (which may be directly or indirectly heated).Since the 
cathode is literaly boiling electrons into the free space vacuum of the 
tube, and there is a positvely charged "target" for the free electrons 
to be attracted to by the simple fact that dissimilar charges attract,I 
say that electrons flow negative to positve potential in the real 
world.(or real universe).
I welcome any explanation of how electons could actually go the other 
way.I was un able to enlist due to some limitations so I did not learn 
these ideas from any Military training. I learned these ideas in school 
when I was getting my degrees.
Jay