Current in a wire flows opposite to the direction of flow of electrons, what exactly is current then, if there is nothing actually flowing?

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I know that flow of electrons is not current, it is opposite to the direction of flow of electrons, is it just a convention? why such a convention was chosen if it is one. . Please correct me if you think i have very wrong assumptions.

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At least in german education you are usually taught about the concepts of technical and physical current flow.

Technical current flow is form positive to negative where as the real phyiscal current flow is the movement of electrons from negative to positive.

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