retrolefty:
Yea there is classic battle fought for ages about what direction 'current' flows. In the military they taught us using electron flow being negative to positive, but the EE profession talks (as taught in colleges and universities) of current flowing from positive to negative.
These aren't contradictory.
When a line of traffic stopped at a stop light starts moving, each one is moving forward but the point at which one car is moving and another is not is moving backward. "Current" isn't electrons, it's the movement of electrons.