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

This is an excellent example of beginning research into the field to bring zero-point and its potential to the everyday reader. I think Cook has done an admirable job. It is a little slow in the beginning and full of too many subjective conclusions about some events and documents, but when Cook finally mentions zero-point (on page 100 of the British edition) he begins rolling and his work into the historical aspects of free energy during Germany in WWII is captivating, especially the Nazi tests in Poland.

Good job into the history of zero-point, but there are a few weeknesses. He should have stayed away from the UFO aspects and the Philadelphia Experiment altogether, although the latter's connection with the beginning of radar cloking and its possible installment in the B-2 was interesting. Cook realizes that a lot about these modern myths is exxageration, and he does distil down what they say to a logical point of believability.

Cook is also a little heavy on presenting "anti-gravity" as more taboo than it is. I don't think an American would have even seen it that way. I don't really think he intended that aspect of the British journalistic mentality to shine through: that they, in essence (Jane's), and other major aeronautic publications, are too "establishment-centric." Cook is far too dependent on "who" somebody is as opposed to the science and physics involved.Cook admits shockingly he doesn't know much about physics, a not-so-reassuring trait in an aeronautic consultant.

This allows for the roll of "Dr. Daniel Marckus" in the background as Cook's nebulous mentor. This also adds a little bit of an "Ipcress File" overtone that perhaps makes some of it look a little too staged of fictional, but life is stranger than fiction.

But this is Cook's hunt for it, his road to a conclusion. After he wises up in the latter half of it, when he understands there is a vast underbelly in the world of science and energy (instead of worrying about the dos and don't of his journalistic peers), he becomes a worthy hunter and he comes close to corralling his target.

Dr. Boyd Bushman wakes him up in the end with "look at the data, not the theory." In essence, don't look at who somebody is, the degrees behind their name, look at the results. It is only then that he goes to Vancouver to talk to John.

This is a lesson for us all: like the Wright Brothers, Tesla or Edison, the great inventors of zero-point wont be any "whos," they will be the pioneers in a new world not door keepers in an old.

Zero-point is out there waiting for anyone to bag it, just like a thousand people trying to master flight in every field, by every barn, 100 years ago. The more out there trying the better chance the mystery will be cracked!

A great book to start you on your own hunt!


Very, very interesting...   January 21, 2003
Edward Weiss (Toronto, ON Canada)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful

I picked up this book at one of my university's libraries, and read it in one sitting. While it is clear, as some reviewers have pointed out, that Cook's knowledge of physics and engineering leaves something to be desired, the sheer amount of information presented leads me to think that if only a fraction of what he suspects is true actually is true, there's a lot of wacky stuff out there that's been deliberately concealed from the public. I even found the WWII history to be interesting and not dry at all.

I think the take-home message should be: keep an open mind.


Frustrating but well written   October 26, 2002
4 out of 6 found this review helpful

AAAArrrgh! I just finished this book, and I probably should have read all the reviews before I started. It wasn't exactly what I expected. I had hoped for some interviews with current researchers and some insight into what areas are currently being pursued. I had read of some recent acknowledgements by large firms of spending on this type of R&D and I hoped for more detail. The book instead reads as a travel log and a sort of daily journal of a supposedly respectable and legitimate editor/writer who decides to investigate early reports of scientific research into anti-gravity, or electrogravitics.
It takes him about 10yrs in his spare time to run down leads in several countries (mostly former WWII German occupations). He interviews several leading people in American air and space industry under the guise of his full time job at Jane's Defense. He constantly asks if there may be any secret projects using unrecognized scientific principles and always gets the cold shoulder. (but he infers that the attitudes of the people he asks show that they are hiding something)
Much of the book goes into research done by the German SS or rumors of research. He touches on every freaky science story from Tesla death rays, UFO's, Time Machines, Men in Black etc. but in the end as I should have expected, there is nothing new. At various parts of the book, he would meet people who seemed to have actual plans, schematics etc from long dead or missing scientists who built amazing demonstration machines that could not be explained by normal theory, but no one seems to do anything about it. I find myself sitting there asking, if the guy put it together in his basement 40 yrs ago and you kind of know what he was doing, then why aren't you trying to copy it yourself.
After a long journey and many years the story wraps up with the conclusion that there probably s 'something' out there that is known to the establishment or at least to a secret hidden part of the government that may lead to huge changes in the way we use energy, and it may be based on zero point and it may have started with research now suppressed from WWII era scientists.
Probably a good read for someone that wants a taste of conspiracy theory science without forcing any particular theory down your throat