Obligatory XKCD

You just have to ignore the existence of electron flow. Conventional current flow is all that matters, and the only people who use electron flow are those who design integrated circuits and lunatics

And that’s why we have positrons instead of the much-cooler-sounding negatrons.

The current does flow from positive to negative. Electricity is not the flow of electrons - they just generate the field that the electric wave flows through. The electrons don't actually move very far. The wave flows outside of the wire, not in it.

"all models are wrong, but some are useful"

Most circuit diagrams do not draw current flowing in any direction at all. It's just labeled + and -. I don't see anything wrong with this.

But then I get to talk about all those holes flowing.

OMG-O-S-H every circuit designed with conventional current just exploded because of your revelation here.

/s

My friend, this is the same branch of science that got us to space with calculations assuming spherical cows.

Couldn't you fix this by also defining electrons as positive? Imo the physicists and electrical engineers should fight it out.

So, it doesn't actually change anything; everything still works the same.

But textbooks need to be thrown away and remade, every circuit diagram, every electrical engineering plan, decades of research and research papers have to be combed and corrected, or accept that they're wrong.

While technically possible, it would create colossal risk and unending chaos and It's environmentally unsound, for something that doesn't change anything in the end.

Lazy is not checking your mail.

Refusing to turn reality on its head for a null change in the end is something else entirely.

While we're at it, is a compass needle's North pole actually a South so that it points North? Or is the Earth's North pole actually South so that the needle's North pole points to it?

(I know that I could look this up, I just want to confuse people.)

Eh, i've struggled with this for years but eventually found my peace.

You see, there's two types of electric current: Electrons moving through a wire, and protons moving through water (the second one is also called a pH gradient, it happens e.g. in cell membranes of chloroplasts, fascinating stuff, check it out).

Basically plants do photosynthesis, which is extremely similar to what solar panels do. They generate an electric current, and in that current, positive charges move, so the "direction of current flow" is the correct one.

I have come to accept that the current inside living beings is more important than the current in all the machinery, because without life there would be no machinery, so life deserves to get the "correct" current.

True, but most of laws, equations etc still work and only specific fields need to adjust for this.

feels like this should be a skeletor quote!

Currents aren't drawn incorrectly. Electrons do move backwards, but since their electric charge is negative, the current goes the correct way.

Could someone explain what makes one pole negative/positive? Like, could we have named them Alice/Bob or is there a specific reason we went with +/-?

Doesn't matter in a lot of cases. Just state the flow direction and convention once and then stick with it.