The resulting swirls of molten metal create electric currents that in turn produce the planet's magnetic field, the conventional theory suggests.

Criticisms of the conventional theory are usually associated with theories of endogenous money.

Such a formalism includes the conventional theory of generalized functions (without their product) as a special case.

When heat was also applied to the unheated arm, conventional theory predicted that the circulatory flow would slow or stop completely.

Advocates of the behavioral approach also challenged the omission of the element of uncertainty from the conventional theory.