[KenWittlief]

Ok its time for a little historical honesty in this thread. The concepts for voltage, current, power... were all standardized on before we really knew about electrons and the subatomic particles.

I dont know who established them, but we had things like batteries and static charge generators long before we knew that electrons even existed. Its impossible to look at an arc of electricity and see which way its flowing, so at some point some scientist called one end of a battery the positive side, and using magnets to sense current flow, using the N pole of the earth as the basis for which end of a magent is the North end, we ended up with amp meters that would deflect to the right when connected to the "postive" side of a battery

so all this equipent started to be manufactured, the conventions were already in place, and it wasnt until much later that the structure of atoms was theorized and verified that we learned that, well.... we got it backwards

in 99.999% of the cases, current is the movement of electrons, and they move from - to +. It was too late to change it.

BTW current and voltage travel at the speed of light - when you connect a voltage source to a long wire you dont have to wait for the 1st electron to make it all the way to the other end before current flows - its not like an empty hose

its like a full hose. Current responds at the speed of light, the individual electrons however do not travel down the wire at that speed.