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by mensetmanusman 733 days ago
Not really, we talk about bubbles moving up, not water moving down.

Current is bubbles.

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We do talk about water moving down though. There is no reason current should be bubbles.

A rationalization after the fact is different from a reason.

In semi-conductor design discussions around transistors and motion of electrons, it’s often much more convenient to talk about hole (bubble) migration than electron migration.

It’s really a moot point as to whether the abstraction used to solve problems matches with the physicalist interpretation of reality.