  Arbitrariness in the zero point of bolometric corrections is a nearly
century-old paradigm leading to two more paradigms. "Bolometric corrections
must always be negative," and "bolometric magnitude of a star ought to be
brighter than its $V$ magnitude". Both were considered valid before IAU 2015
General Assembly Resolution B2, a revolutionary document that supersedes all
three aforementioned paradigms. The purpose of this article is to initiate a
new insight and a new understanding of the fundamental astrophysics and present
new capabilities to obtain standard and more accurate stellar luminosities and
gain more from accurate observations in the era after Gaia. The accuracy gained
will aid in advancing stellar structure and evolution theories, and also
Galactic and extragalactic research, observational cosmology and dark matter
and dark energy searches.
