Originally posted by NordlysYeah, the magnetic north wanders around the geographic north. If the magnetic north were wandering around the geographic south pole, it would be entirely sane to re-name one of them.
The magnetic pole keeps wandering anyway, so it would be mad to adjust geographic north to the magnetic north. And what would they do during the hundreds or thousands of years of reversal?
Originally posted by avalanchethecatWhy rename the stable element? And since the magnetic poles are incorrectly named at the moment, we could just keep the terms as they are, they'd just become correct.
Yeah, the magnetic north wanders around the geographic north. If the magnetic north were wandering around the geographic south pole, it would be entirely sane to re-name one of them.