system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Current in a wire flows opposite to the direction of flow of electrons, what exactly is current then, if there is nothing actually flowing?

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.
gpt
* Back when Benjamin Franklin studied electricity, he discovered that current flowed but wasn't sure which way was positive and which way was negative....
* So he guessed.
* Later they found out he had it backwards.
* But they had used his conventions for so long that they kept it.
* So "current" and flowing electrons are the same thing just the signs make it seem otherwise.