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 50 years? Why isn't this out yet? September 8, 2002
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
I haven't read this book, but I have read the interview with Nick Cook at the Atlantic Unbound website, the new story at Jane's about antigravity and Boeing, and the reviews and summaries here at Amazon. This all leads me to one big question- if the Nazis had this technology close to working more than 50 years ago, then why isn't this working yet? You'd think, and I think, that if it was possible to get this technology to work, that in after 60 years and after spending billions they would have done it. This makes me think that either the whole idea of anti-gravity and zero-point energy is completely bogus, or that while the anti-gravity effect is real it isn't practically possible to implement it in a working useful device.
Why should we read the spoon-fed writings of a military-affairs journal editor? December 2, 2008
R. J. McCabe (Seattle)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
According to the book's jacket, Nick Cook was an "aviation editor of Jane's Defence Weekly, the worlds leading military-affairs journal". The way Mr. Cook relates his access to knowledge about "military-affairs" sounds like the typical "homer" sports writer's articles on his local team -- sit in a room with a speaker and regurgitate whatever you're told. Investigative reporting it ain't (or so it seems).
Why is this relevant to the book? Because while Mr Cook seems skeptical of anything that's not "official" he decides to spend years of his time and significant amounts of personal funds to investigate a line of thinking that says the military has been developing secret technologies in the "deep black" for 60+ years.
Perhaps he's pretending to be skeptical of "secret technologies" so you'll believe his story?
I had a bit of a hard time staying with the story as it meandered thru the series of mostly dead-ends as he travelled all over the world to meet various contacts who might "spill the beans" but never really do.
As should be expected, the book proves nothing, but does relate several interesting stories that will feed the faithful.
Almost There... February 3, 2003
M0rr1gan (Canada)
4 out of 12 found this review helpful
Cook's book is good, but it just doesn't quite go far enough. Some facts he seems to merely wave at, before moving on, while others are plain wrong (he opens the book discussing the sonic boom from an F-117 stealth fighter; funny thing is, the F-117 can't travel faster than sound). Cook says that the B-2 Stealth bomber was publicly admitted to exist, even though it is supposedly a "second generation stealth aircraft" that employs more advanced stealth technology than the F-117. Wrong on two counts. The B-2 and F117 were both developed at the same time (roughly), so the B-2 could not benefit from improved stealth technology spun off from the F-117. The B-2 never was a stealth aircraft, but a reduced signature aircraft. Its existence could be admitted because far less classified stuff involved in making it.Further, he has brought in some dubious materials, such as metioning the Philadelphia Experiment, of which there is ample evidence that it never occurred at all. Cook also speaks in a way to pull in those interested in evidence of government malfeasance, deep black classified projects, and in conspiracies. He never comes out and says that they're involved, but, through innuendo, suggests it, winning readers whose interests lie along those lines. I am just a layman when it comes to aerospace technology, but some of his science is just plain wrong. For example, he says that the B-2 Stealth Bomber uses ground spent uranium as a dielectric on its lifting surfaces to generate the electric field needed to suspend gravity. Depleted uranium is heavy and there are better electrical conductors around, making it a poor choice as a dielectric on an aircraft (he also says DU is very hard, when it isn't; it can be dented with a butter knife). Like Preston Nichols' "Montauk Experiment" and Brad Steiger's "Rainbow Conspiracy", this is science fiction masquerading as fact. Cook seems to be trying to capitalize on his reputation as an aerospace journalist to tell a "non-fiction science fiction story". If you keep in mind that facts have been used to tell a story, you'll enjoy "The Hunt For Zero Point" a lot more.
You have to read it, to believe it March 27, 2003
jimmyM (USA)
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
The Hunt for Zero Point takes you on a journalists' quest to find truth in a matter that could change the world. Nick Cook explains his informational journey through the past and present knowledge of anti-gravity technology and Z.P.E. The book gets its' suspense from the ever nearing date of Nick's sabotage in the journalist world, or his silencing by the government. Even with the suspense, drama, dialogue, and the threat of failure removed the data alone would prove Nick's point, and the point of many who walked the lines as he did. Wrestling with the past while fighting the future Nick goes from a nose-dive to a perfect landing in his wonderful story of de-classification and realization of the many unknown technologies of the present.
 Good first half, falls apart in second half August 21, 2002
T. D. Perdue (Urbandale, IA)
19 out of 23 found this review helpful
The first half of this book was gripping, well-researched and well-argued. I didn't find anything new that I hadn't already read in dozens of UFO and conspiracy web sites, but it was put together and rationalized nicely.The second half fell apart completely. I think the technical editor just threw his hands up and said "I can't fix this". The second half was a huge Nazi history lesson, without the interesting analysis that the first half contained. It became largely unsupportable conspiracy fluff and was a disappointment. The glaring errors included saying that the Nazis used gold to shield gamma rays, Uranium-234 is used for atomic bombs, and an even more gross mistake was saying that a Gigawatt of electricity was more than a terawatt of electricity. He also said a gigawatt was what an atomic bomb releases. The fact is an atomic bomb releases millions of terawatts instantly. A single coal power plant or nuclear reactor can trickle out a gigawatt of power. Those glaring mistakes and the unsupported and unanalyzed tidal wave of Nazi conspiracy fluff ruined this book's credibility.
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