About

Why this book exists

Ideas get lost quietly. Not banned, just dropped from the syllabus, out of print, and finally out of reach.

Electrical science has a mainstream line that every engineering student learns, and an alternative line that fewer and fewer people do: Tesla's own writings, Steinmetz's treatment of dielectricity and magnetism, Heaviside, the Borderland researchers, Eric Dollard, and the long casebook of contested energy and propulsion claims. Some of that material is right, some is wrong, and much of it is unsettled. All of it is worth knowing well enough to judge for yourself.

The Forbidden Current collects it in one place, tells each idea fairly, and rates each claim against the evidence (how the ratings work). The theory and the history are the core of the project, not the warm-up.

The later volumes turn to the practical side: how the big systems work, how their parts come to exist, and how to design and run a small energy system of your own. The aim is understanding and ownership: knowing the systems you depend on well enough to measure them, repair them, and build on them.

The author

Stephen Horton is an engineer and researcher whose work spans electrical systems, chemistry, materials and physics, and the founder of Quantum Armadillo, LLC, the book's publisher.

How it was written

AI tools generated first drafts; the author edits, checks every claim against its sources, and writes the ratings. The full statement is on the AI disclosure page.