If it wasn't for human ingenuity the most awesome display of electrical energy would be lightning and its thunder. In fact, until the century before last about all humans managed to do in the way of coping with high voltage was to get in out of electric storms. But since Ben Franklin and his kite, we've more or less mastered electricity. First with the telegraph, telephone, and electric chair; then with television and nuclear generators. Despite these advances, we still have to get in out of the rain when it starts to thunder and lightning. Which should tell us something about how we deal with what we know. Unfortunately it hasn't.

In two hundred odd years since electricity was first stored in Leyden jars and its power applied to human functions, we've made what might seem like amazing strides forward. We've wired ourselves together in an endless coil of modern conveniences, although we still don't know exactly how electricity works. We've even instilled logic to the flow of electrons to the point where nearly invisible magnetic bubbles are able to think faster than we can.