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

There may be or may not be any valid science associated with the things that Nick Cook has written about, however, it is naive to believe that the billions and billions of dollars spent by the government on secret scientific research have not turned up things that contradict many commonly accepted scientific principals. It happens almost every week in the public realm of science.

There are many reasons why the government might want to keep "antigravity" and certain other discoveries out of the public realm. Preserving vested interests, as implied by Nick Cook, is only one reason but probably not the real one. Obviously, the public's ingrained fear of being considered foolishly gullible or ridiculous just for entertaining certain ideas and concepts provides the most effective tool for accomplishing the suppression of "dangerous" scientific knowledge...

Nick Cook is not a physicist or an aeronautical engineer but I doubt that any reputable engineer or scientist would dare to delve (publicly) into any subject so heavily tainted by unorthodoxy and general quackery...

Cook certainly comes up with no proof that anti-gravity or other related phenomena exist but that is beside the point. By the time proof becomes available, his type of investigative book would serve no purpose. His book is like a reporter's investigation of the Wright brothers while they were tinkering in their bicycle shop, or of Einstein when he was working in the Swiss patent office.

But what makes Cook's book even more intriguing is that, this time, the people in charge, having learned the lessons of history, are fully aware of the the potential for harm (and good) that the present day Einsteins and Wright Brothers represent.

Maybe his findings will all turn out to be of no real significance. No one knows, least of all, most scientists. Either way, it's interesting and no one should be afraid to think a little about the possibilities without feeling they have to jump to unwarranted conclusions.


inconclusive   July 22, 2007
Oliver_York
3 out of 4 found this review helpful

I've not finished this yet - so maybe I should wait, but so far I find this quite interesting, but lacking in any solid evidence - I hope he's going to hit me with some soon. A few dodgy bits I noticed

- page 19 : referring a report about secret technologies: "Counterbary is defined as 'the action of levitation, where gravity's force is more than overcome by electrostatic or other propulsion'. Antigravity then." Considering the whole book is about antigravity, this seems a bit of an odd statement - ever since hot air baloons, we have had systems that could overcome gravity by countering it with some other force. Antigravity, if it existed, would be a way of neutralising or reversing gravity itself.

- p.45 he refers to a weapon the Nazis supposedly invented able to fire shells 170km, which he believes is "more than enough to hit most British cities from deep within France". Hmm, in fact this is merely enough to hit London (south-east England) from a site a few kilometres inland from Calais (the other side of the English Channel) - he must have a very odd (London-centric) idea of "most British cities"!

- p.45 Perhaps when he wrote this book a few years ago it sounded more impressive to do your research using "an unusual combination of word commands fed through a high-powered search engine" (i.e. he googled for it)

p.58 he turns down the invitation to visit a "biological-technical institute" in Austria run by a man whose father supposedly invented antigravity systems during the second world war (according to research the writer has just been getting all excited about)because he finds out the man was not a professional scientist and had no impressive letters after his name. Einstein was originally a patent clerk, and why shouldn't out-of-the-box thinking come from an unusual source??


A light but interesting read.   April 30, 2003
Ken Dannelley (Lake Jackson, TX United States)
4 out of 7 found this review helpful

In "The Hunt for Zero Point", Nick Cook attempts to legitimize the search for anti gravity technology; a realm usually reserved for UFO's and conspiracy theory "researchers". Cooks thesis is as follows: Both the Russians and Americans secretly appropriated Nazi anti gravity technology after World War II. The UFO's people have been seeing ever since are not from outer space but flying disks secretly built by the USA (though the reason for this secrecy is never made entirely clear in "Zero Point"). Although Cook makes much of his JANES DEFENSE MONTHLY credentials, "Zero Point" is a surprisingly light read. Some of his sources are of dubious credibility (especially the use of Berlitz's book "The Philidelphia Experiment"). Furthermore, using REALLY KNOWLEDGEABLE AND IMPORTANT EXPERTS HIDING BEHIND PSUEDONYMS as sources weakens Cooks thesis considerably and makes Cook sound like a typical conspiracy theorist . All this being said, Cook goes to great pains to walk a middle line between being a completly uncritical 'believer' in Nazi UFO/anti-gravity and being a completly derisive critic - an approach not seen often in books of this kind. This attempt to walk the middle line will displease both "believers" and "sceptics". Also, his detective novel writing style makes the topic easily understood for those new to it . Overall, "Zero Point" is a decent introduction to the smoke and mirrors world of "anti-gravity". It is a fun, light, and harmless read.


Great fiction!   July 11, 2007
J. Brown (Southeast US)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful

I'm giving this book three points, but only for the author's considerable skills as a writer. The book is interesting and enjoyable, but the reader should understand up-front that it is purely speculative. If jumping to conclusions were an Olympic event, this book would surely take the gold. An enjoyable read, nevertheless.


So What Really Happened?   September 24, 2002
Mark Kelly (Oxon Hill, MD United States)
4 out of 8 found this review helpful

This book promises a lot of answers and delivers a lot of disjointed "facts." Were Nazi flying saucer experiments responsible for the "foo-fighters" reported by Allied planes? Did these become the stuff of which post-Roswell (or is it Rosewell?) sightings were made. Did that Russian and nutty Canadian really defy gravity? After reading this, I still don't know. Still, a diverting read if you are looking for something lightweight.