The Hunt for Zero Point: Inside the Classified World of Antigravity Technology

What-to-expect should be your concern with whether to read Nick Cook's book. If you don't know, he is as credible a source as you can possibly get, having served Jane's Defense Weekly as Aviation Editor for ten years. In other words, he's not going to make stuff up because he has some strange beliefs, or because he works as a spook spinning stories to UFO cults. Mr. Cook has followed pieces of a puzzle that started with monstrous "black budgets" of the Pentagon and led to the strangest ideas about not only where the money had gone, but where some of the ideas and science had come from.

It gets strange to be sure, but to to ignore possibilities of what may have happened givin the evidence would be negligent. Cook constantly gives us all the explanations even though some are obviously far-fetched. It is the best approach since common sense can sort most of this out, and at the heart of everything is the zeal of professionalism in Nick Cook. There is even a little naivety in his approach at times that ensures he is a product of nuts and bolts thinking. And as he proves in Zero Point, there are times when those fantastic (obviously spun) stories can be useful to understanding why things happen the way they do and they give glimpses into a world that is designed to keep not only citizens in the dark and confused, but foreign Intelligence as well. A great example is the obviously erroneous story of the Philidelphia Experiment and its associations with TT Brown (a successful inventor absorbed into classified research). You will have to read to find out the rest. The important thing is, someone finally did this. We all owe him a debt of gratitude. It should be said, that there are numerous others who have done incredible work that barely got mentioned by U.S. Press if ever.

There is a video, only available at TLC.com called the "Billion Dollar Secret" that is thee companion for this book. If you enjoyed "Hunt for Zero Point" you must go get it. The interviews he spoke of are in there with Boyd Bushman (along with three Government minders) and Widmer, who looks over his shoulder at the minder and says, trembling, "yes" to Cook's inquiry of whether he ever felt "frightened" by the security rings around him. yikes.


Fascinating   June 2, 2005
Brian A. Schar (Menlo Park, CA United States)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful

50 years ago, the titans of aerospace all agreed, in public and in writing, that antigravity technology was only 5-10 years away. It's true - Cook has the documents to prove it. The pioneers of aerospace, while cocky, were not ones to make statements like that if they weren't true. And they were all in agreement. So where are our flying cars, 50 years later?

Nick Cook, a writer for the respected Jane's Defense Weekly, set out to get some answers. Along the way, he encounters some of the usual suspects in the antigravity story, such as Townsend Brown, and even some characters familiar to those with some knowledge of UFOlogy. I'm sure many readers won't appreciate that he dismantles a number of legends that have grown up around those folks. For example, Cook puts forth convincing evidence that while Townsend Brown may have discovered something important, he was not part of the overall classified effort to achieve antigravity. The story takes Cook to Nazi Germany and to the elusive Hans Kammler, as well as the Bell.

This is a fascinating book that will appeal to anyone with an interest in antigravity or unconventional science. It's definitely worth a buy.


Brilliant! Long overdue!   November 1, 2002
Verne Robinson (Brooklyn, NY USA)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful

Is this "stuff" real? Absolutely. What is it? No one has a clue. But this excellent journalistic journey by Nick Cook deserves high marks and much praise.

Author "smarter than he lets on" Nick Cook deliberately goes over the head/under the radar of the average reader. The author lays out the irrefutable facts about secret Nazi technology that was kept hidden from the public. German Luftwaffe Secret Technology was, for example, far more advanced with nuclear reactors used for enriching uranium than is commonly known. And US intelligence groups shipped thousands of tons of it home in 1945, as did the Russians. It included countless patents, "weird science stuff" but also the Nazi scientists/engineers who had fathered it; even ones who should have gone to trial as war criminals.

If Germany produced better scientists it was because they were not restrained by the narrow, dogmatic way math & engineering are taught in the USA. Germany simply produced better scientist who were not blinded by existing theories. For example--Werner Von Braun was developing an intercontinental version of his V2 (the A10) that could bomb New York City. Contrast this with America's ...Robert Goddard whose rocket failures blew up all the time. It demonstrates a powerful point of this book; America has not produced a vision of science that understands how to deal with this "weird stuff." As Cook says there are two types of science; the stuff you learn in school and then all this "weird stuff".

America cultivated a deadly cold war science/technology hidden from the public with top-secret "black" projects. These "black" programs have become a vast system that cleans up evidence even if it means eliminating people. The public has no way of knowing what has been developed. Not only are we in the dark, but also "they" actively create disinformation, UFOs/Philadelphia Experiment, etc. to silence people. No one knowledgeable about these black projects could leak information about them and live.

The point is that we don't know what to do with zero-point energy. We split the atom and immediately made it a weapon, then dropped two devices on Japanese civilians to impress Stalin. Next we employed it in nuclear submarines to carry nuclear bombs all over the planet and further threaten the Soviets.

Physicists say zero-point energy makes nuclear energy look like "a child's firecracker", so playing around with zero-point could create a planetary nightmare. Debating whether or not some black project has developed anti-gravity drive is simply asking the wrong question. Nick Cook elicits the right questions and he showed me where to look to see this very obvious "black hole" in our science.


Wild Ride!   October 11, 2006
A. McDonald (TN United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

The book takes the reader on a journey through the author's investigation into the post WW2 era recruitment of Nazi scientists and acquisition of science developement. This worldwide quest culminates in applications within modern technical developements, especially in aircraft and space applications.


Why the anitgravity mentioned in the book doesn't work.   January 2, 2007
W. ANDERSON (Wisconsin, USA)
12 out of 16 found this review helpful

Without a doubt, this is a fascinating book, after reading it, you will probably like I did, spend a good amount of time on the internet researching some of the information presented. The idea is that towards the end of World War II, German scientists created antigravity technology, which in the closing days of the war was seised by the American government and used to develop super secret aircraft that use antigravity technology to reduce their weight and mass to improve maneuverability and speed. The reason given why we haven't heard of this is that the antigravity technology has been kept Top Secret and all mention of it is actively suppressed by the US government. ( I have a problem with government suppression theories considering the success they had suppressing the Clinton twists.) In the book a number of antigravity machines or methods are mentioned. One is the Schauberger effect, created by a "Repulsine" at 20,000 rpm. A Repulsine is a type of air turbine that is supposed to create an antigravity effect by "air molecules passing through the turbine to pack so tightly together that . . . electrons and protons with opposite charges ... annihilate with one another . . . out of the physical and into virtual states." page 221. A lot of time is spent on this device towards the end of the book, it is of course impossible for an air turbine to create the heat and pressures to force electrons and protons to fuse, which also do not "annihilate" but would rather fuse to form neutrons. Once you understand that, you can see that when you read the account of Schauberger working for the Nazis, he was stalling for time and sabotaging his own work, to keep the Nazis from finding out that it didn't work because they undoubtably would have executed him for deceiving them.

Another method described in the book for antigravity is in which a metal object is charged to a very high voltage and is lifted by the Biefeld-Brown Effect, ( there is quite a bit on the web on this effect as being antigravity) but of course this is just simply an electrical trick called Electrohydrodynamics and has nothing to do with gravity and is far too weak of an effect to be used in lifting aircraft. The "lifters" using this effect are called EHD thrusters and fly by creating a down draft by acting as a fan that moves the air by ionising the air at the positive pole and neutralizing it at the Negative pole. A EHD thruster doesn't work in a vacuum, which it would if it was really antigravity.

A third method for antigravity described in the book which is also still being considered today by some, is spinning a superconducting disk at high rpm and causing a reduction in gravity above the disk. While our knowledge of gravity is so limited that it is difficult to say that this method will not work, there is a natural example that does disprove this method as having any effect on gravity. Neutron stars are very dense bodies that spin very very rapidly, and as they cool down over time, the core of the Neutron star comes superconducting. If a rapidly spinning superconductor had any ability to block or weaken gravity, it would have very noticeable effects on neutron stars and those effects are not seen. For as the core cooled and became superconducting, the core would block the gravity holding the neutron star together, which if it blocked enough gravity, the neutron star would explode in a truly massive explosion. Even a small partial weaken of gravity would cause the neutron star to expand which would slow the rotation of the star and in turn would slow the pulsating radio signal that these stars emit. A slowing with age, has not been observed in neutron stars, so rapidly spinning superconductors do not have any effect on gravity.

The last method in the book is the Hutchison effect which is not Nazi science but is rather recent work of a Canadian tinker who is unable to say just what the effect is or what causes it and is unable to reliably repeat the effect. But those who studied the effect were able to deduce that the effect only occurred if Mr. Hutchison was present, which clearly puts the effect in the realm of non repeatable results.

Despite the fact that the antigravity technology described in the book doesn't work, it is a very interesting book. If you read it with this in mind, you will see what the author failed to see, and everything makes much better sense and the world isn't as black or secret as he thinks. I wish the searchers of antigravity well and hope they find what they are looking for, but the prize if it is out there, it has yet to be found.