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Not really, we talk about bubbles moving up, not water moving down.

Current is bubbles.



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.




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