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 A content-free conspiracy thriller January 14, 2004
Kyle Wilson
18 out of 30 found this review helpful
This book is terrible. Though Cook's style keeps you turning the pages, after reading 270 pages slackjawed and credulous adulation of every snake-oil salesman to cross his path you'll find that you have no better understanding of the physics of gravity than when you started. This is a work utterly devoid of scientific rigor.
No Credibility October 8, 2002
Thomas B. Talbot (Gunpowder, MD USA)
10 out of 22 found this review helpful
For an author with reportedly good credentials, his scientific understanding is low. More than speculation, this book is utter fantasy. Statements that the B-2 bomber has an antigravity device, that a U.S. ship teleported itself in WWII, and that the Germans may have had antigravity flying saucers are for the gullible.
Speculation is fine, but THE HUNT FOR ZERO POINT is so far off the reservation that it is silly. Readers interested in historic high-technology efforts in space and aviation may want to check out something like "Project Orion" instead.
Thanks for the Warning February 22, 2003
"Spinner" Dave (ST PAUL, MN United States)
10 out of 28 found this review helpful
OK, I got to page 40 and decidecd it was time to check and see if it was worth continuing. Guess not! I was hoping to learn about past research into anti-gravity, regardless of its outcomes, but it was looking more and more like a "Gummamint K-O-N-spiracy" book with each passing page. Glad I borrowed it from the library! It's too bad, it could have been interesting. As far as I know, the scientists still have no real model for gravity (gravitons? superstrings? c'mon, maybe it's just ether on the grassy knoll).
Lots of blah, blah, blah, blah.... August 31, 2005
David M. Smith (PA, USA)
7 out of 30 found this review helpful
How can you write 300+ pages and not say anything?
That is this book summed up.
I kept thinking he has to reveal something soon and then the book was over with nothing really being said.
Reader Beware December 27, 2002
Thomas D. Canfield (Santa Ana, CA USA)
8 out of 39 found this review helpful
This could have been a great book but the author and/or publisher seem to have chosen to use it as an exercise in how much profanity and how many obscienities they could get away with in a book of this type before someone complains. This rendered the book unreadable for me. I don't appreciate being treated like a dungbug. Even people interested in such things as anti-gravity still have some moral standards. There are other authors out there who still have some respect for their readers values and give virtually the same information in their books even though they didn't work for Jane's. The only reason this review has a rating of 1 is that's the lowest rating Amazon will allow. I'm returning my copy of this book and spending my money elsewhere. (publisher's please note)
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