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 Many Thanks, Nick Cook! September 16, 2007
George-Peter Paxinos
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Nick Cook starts his Hunt for Zero Point as an adventure story : which is as it should be, for all research into the unknown - especially the well-guarded unknown! - IS an adventure!
By the time one gets to mid-point, one is dismayed by Cook's lack of time for consequentially-lengthened investigation, very impressed by the intense effort he manages to squeeze into his limited available time, and appalled at the apparent lack of progress - on the surface, at least, of scientific research into truly new, viable technologies. One is also aware, however, of a secret world guarding its secrets well, with state-sanctioned, Gestapo-like tactics where and when necessary.
There is a noticeable transition between the first and second parts of his book, the point where Nick finally gets his teeth into real empirical research done decades before under appalling wartime conditions and horrendous cost in human sacrifice, and which shows up in crass comparison today's multi-billion-dollar, corporately-funded, sheeplike sinecures of thought-catechised academia timidly testing the water without really getting its toes wet, and what concerted human effort is capable of when conditions necessitate experiment, rather than theory, and when ivory-towers have to go by the board.
Most of all, one is appalled by the implicit idiocy of Western, sanitised-for-our-protection, pseudo-scientific consensus-psychosis orthodox "science", and the between-the-lines awareness that Mankind has never left the pattern of a socially-imposed, mandatory infallibility of its leading alpha males, as in any monkey or baboon tribe, so that any truly new research results are met with the exorcism of their discoverer.
The sharpish transition between the first and second halves of the book might appear to be an attempt to justify the meaty part, the second half, by the dry bread Cook has of necessity exhausted in the first half, in order to justify going out on a limb in research otherwise unacceptable to the orthodox, and the fact that Cook has introduced, as his scientific backup, an unnameable mentor in the form of a shadowy father-figure ostensibly related to unspecified research and/or defence establishments, a deus-ex-macchina to lend credence to his own true investigative bent under the Damocles sword of professional catechism by those of lesser intellect but greater position in the hierarchy of things, might seem to confirm this view.
Under obvious professional duress, Nick Cook has done us a real favour : he has gone out on a limb, and whereas his potential critics, mainly the professional nitpickers, button-sorters and bottle-washers of science, who produce little or nothing original themselves and so love to tear others apart, might nibble away at his strict scientific terminologies, he has shown us a real world, in which its hero, Viktor Schauberger, a simple forester but in the strictest sense a true scientific observer, has held out the promise of a better, cleaner world of free energy, understood and utilised only by a desperate Heinrich Himmler's SS, while, even today, almost seventy years after these events, the status-holding alpha males of our human baboon tribe never fail to fail us.
I give Nick Cook four stars for his - in my opinion all-too-short! - book, and a very big, hearty, fat and meaty one final star for having the immense guts to try!
George Paxinos
Antigravity and Zero Point Energy August 7, 2005
P. Tinker (St. Pete)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book is absolutely great. It dives into the underworld of black budget programs and comes up with little known facts. It talks about the Avro Car and subsequent flying saucer projects but most interestig is the Nazi connection. Apparently during WWII, the Nazis were researching antigravity and developed several workable inventions. These same flying saucers were later termed foo fighters. Apparently these foo fighters were remote controlled flying saucers using either a conventional engine or an implosion engine. Nick Cook definetely did his homework on this and deserves props for his hard work with numerous facts. He put the pieces of the puzzle together and it all makes sense now. A must read!
A fascinating topic couched in a highly readable text January 10, 2003
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The atomic bomb wasn't the only 1940s secret project to interest scientists: antigravity technology was another high priority, and one which may still be under study today. In The Hunt For Zero Point, journalist Nick Cook, with his access to key sources in intelligence and military communities, reveals evidence of a search for limitless energy and gravity control. A fascinating topic couched in a highly readable text.
Truth can be elusive, too March 3, 2003
Auntiegrav (WI United States)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book alone is not going to be the answer to what you seek. But put it with a few others and a couple of the right websites, and you might find what Scully and Mulder spent 8 years on. If you want to know the truth, you will continue to look even after reading 'The Hunt', but you may see some lights toward the answers and the physics and the messages that may or may not be 'out there'. Nick Cook has done the best he can when the questions aren't allowed to be asked in some places. Look for the missing branches in physics, and the phenomena in the skies which fit your particular vision, then look for connections between the two. You could end up being called a 'loon', but if you read and dig, like the author did, you will also find the money trail. Check out "Secret Government" or 'disclosureproject.org' along with this book if you want it to be believable. If you just want to deny everything and be a pompous skeptic at the next MIT coldfusion death party, then read it along with Von Daniken's junk science. Your truth will be what you turn into grant money.
Exciting January 29, 2007
Stephen Brownell (Australia)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
A very detailed depiction of the developments into new physics experimentation. The author has appeared to piece together an incredidble journey into new technology.
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