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

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.


Title Is Intriguing But Not Supported By the Story   October 1, 2002
10 out of 16 found this review helpful

The initial chapters of 'The Hunt for Zero Point' are suspenseful and intriguing -- including a "Deep Throat" type character. Cook painstakingly builds a solid foundation and set of credentials to alleviate claims that he is a conspiracy nut.

However, the story itself only drones on chapter after chapter with loose relationships between "discoveries." The story line itself is almost anti-gravatic -- defying logic or good writing. While some points are interesting, nothing is proved; and no solid evidence is given to support the weak story line. Cook takes great pains to create a non-fiction work, but the story itself is more believable as an X-File episode. The story slowly devolves and suddenly ends in a weak plot twist -- no revelations, no new discoveries.

I was struck with how poor this book was when I opened a recent Edmunds Scientic Catalog. The secret, bizarre, heretofore hidden (according to Cook's fantastic claims) super conductor Meissner effect is featured FOR SALE in Edmunds Catalog. (I am not making this up. Get the Fall 2002 copy of Edmunds and see page 61.)

I really had high hopes for this book. Unfortunately, the book simply does not deliver much. Written in a rambling, unfocused style, it really is not even a good "fun" book.


Puhhlease   August 21, 2002
J. Sincak (NE United States)
21 out of 41 found this review helpful

Mr. Cook feeds our society's insatiable appetite for pseudo-science with a follow-up to his previous book on the same topic. Research on an anti-gravity machine has been going on for far longer than even Mr. Cook demonstrates. Those who are amazed at how seriously this has been taken by nations and corporations should not be. Indeed history is replete with man's attempt to get a free lunch out of the universe - at first with perpetual motion machines and now with anti-gravity "technology". "Zero Point Energy" is nothing more than the latest technical sounding buzzword for this kind of nonsense. Thank god for Boltzman's Second Law of Thermodynmaics which once and for all put an end to the futile and wasteful quest for a machine one could get more energy out of than was put into. If only we had such a genius to put these modern excuses for scientists out of their jobs we would be most obliged.