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

If, however, you have spent years pondering out how space, time, and gravity work, and found yourself drawn to surprising conclusions, this book will resonate eerily with your wildest supposings. The last half especially hints at a technology beyond belief.

After the last page I suddenly remembered "Forbidden Planet", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", and "Sphere". What if they were more than just fun, imaginative movies?

Keep in mind that "Forbidden Planet" was released the same year the lid came down on antigravity talk in the aerospace industry.

Hmmm....


Fantastic, also read Maddox   August 16, 2002
W. P. Davis (Boston)
7 out of 22 found this review helpful

An imaginative look at what in my opinion,,, is that this author believes could actually become reality. It is however difficult to believe, being that our world society is now highly complex and collectively competent, one person or few persons will not be capable of this very hard to believe status. That is the only so obvious weak trait the book has. Ignoring that this is a fantastic work of Sci Fi which projects very real possibilities for future technology and advancement as a whole. I would strongly suggest reading another book very similar which also imparts time travel and anti gravity among many other ideas as such, SB: 1 or God by Karl Maddox


This Is How "Black Programs" Really Are   November 21, 2006
Terry Sunday (El Paso, Texas United States)
31 out of 32 found this review helpful

When I first came across Nick Cook's "The Hunt for Zero Point" in a bookstore, I scoffed at the subtitle: "Inside the classified world of antigravity technology." As an aerospace engineer, historian and dyed-in-the-wool skeptic, I figured it was probably full of mystical, pseudo-scientific nonsense that would appeal only to those with absolutely no understanding of how the world works. Surely, I thought, it would offer nothing of value to knowledgeable, sophisticated, discriminating readers. In fact, I initially lumped it into the same category as Philip Corso's "The Day After Roswell," which remains possibly the most shamelessly self-serving, manifestly ridiculous and blatantly fabricated "true story" ever concocted.

Then, later, I checked a copy of "The Hunt for Zero Point" out of the library and read it. My opinion is now completely different. I highly recommend it if you are interested in learning about an obscure, previously unknown aspect of aerospace history that, if true, has major implications for the future of nearly every high-technology enterprise on Earth.

Mr. Cook has impressive qualifications. He served for over a decade as the Aviation Editor of the highly respected aerospace journal "Jane's Defence Weekly." His knowledge of the people, companies, hardware, technology and politics of today's "military/industrial complex" is extraordinary. Quite simply, he gets it right. A useful way to gauge the knowledge and attention to detail that an author brings to his work is to check if he defines acronyms correctly. Mr. Cook does. As best I can tell, he also gets right every person, place, date, event and company that he mentions--at least, the ones that I could verify. Finally--and this is most unusual--he even gets the name of one of America's largest aerospace corporations right. The name is "Lockheed Martin," not "Lockheed-Martin." Virtually every author who mentions the company inserts a hyphen in the name that should not be there. "Attention to detail" means getting things like this right, and Mr. Cook does so.

His hunt for "zero point" began in the early 1990s when a copy of a 1956 magazine article mysteriously appeared on his desk in his London office. Entitled "The G-Engines Are Coming," the article stimulated him to seek answers to questions regarding super-secret "black programs" that, before, he had not even thought to ask. He pored through dusty Government archives, had clandestine meetings with secretive characters and saw potential contacts suddenly silenced. His quest took him from the "edge of tomorrow" at the legendary "Skunk Works" in Palmdale, California, to the ruins of the infamous Nazi underground rocket-production factory, the "Mittelwerk," in Germany's Harz Mountains, where he tried to pick up the 50-year-old trail of the elusive SS Obergruppenfuehrer Hans Kammler. Kammler was one of the least-known but most-powerful men in the last days of the Third Reich. He reportedly ran an ultra-secret SS "special projects office" tasked to develop advanced weapons--weapons that could turn the tide of the War, and that were so far ahead of their time that even today they remain the stuff of science fiction.

"The Hunt for Zero Point" is more of a scientific detective story than a revelation of secret "antigravity" technology. Taken as such, it is an excellent read. Whether Mr. Cook's conclusions are convincing is up to each reader to decide. But he does offer several insights that cannot be disputed. One is that "they" deliberately put forth "disinformation" (i.e., "lies") to impede the chances that researchers into "black programs" will discover the truth about them. Another is that companies sometimes pursue lines of research that, unbeknownst to them, are already active in the "black world." When this happens, they are "brought into" the program and, very effectively, forced to shut up as far as the outside world is concerned. These are two more things that Mr. Cook gets right.


Nazis in the Sky with Diamonds   February 24, 2004
Kevin Seeger (Woodland Hills, CA United States)
53 out of 62 found this review helpful

This is an interesting book. The author is a British aerospace journalist, who is up on his cutting edge technology. The subject is his personal quest to uncover, between assignments, the covert science of our government which operates in the "black" beyond public scrutiny. The style is a first person action narrative in which most of the action is a guy researching on the internet and making important phone calls while his plane is boarding. This is where I knock off the 5th star, as a journalist adventure story written by a technician is sometimes not such a page turner.

The titular zero point is the inexhaustable energy that exists in the quantum foam of our universe, which thus far has been proven to be there, but has not yet been harnessed. Obviously, the government who gets at it first will rule the planet for some time.

Cook does some stellar research to make real world sense out of the legends and myths that have arisen from the ashes of WWII. He discovers the truth behind the rumors that the Nazis were building flying saucers towards the end of the war. He also reveals the great genius of the American conquistadors was in their highly efficient absorbtion of German secret technology and scientists at the close of the war.

We all know that the Germans invented (discovered?) quantum mechanics in the early part of the century, and the Nazis had workable technology far in advance of the Allies during the war. We also know that the greatest of the German scientists did work for America upon conclusion of the war, and were the engineers that put us on the moon a couple of decades later. What we don't know is what else they were working on.

The best part of this book for me was the introduction to the little remembered Nazi, Hans Kammler, who was literally the architect of the concentration camps. By the end of the war, Kammler had usurped all of the power that Himmler's SS had usurped from Hitler. Kammler pioneered the state-within-a-state concept with his unregulated think tank in Prague conducting experiments at the very fringe of conventional science. There is compelling evidence that Kammler would have been among the war criminals repatriated to America, and with him came his technology, and frighteningly, his state-within-a-state design, which came to be the modern structure of our military-industrial complex. The good news is that he was by all rights belonging to the Soviets, as they were promised the Czech Republic, but in a good showing of bad faith, Patton went in and got the goods before the Reds arrived.

The final analysis seems to be that anti-gravity is a workable technology, but not one that we yet fully understand. Mass reduction can be achieved in the laboratory, as can levitation and transmutation of metals, but it is unpredictable and more akin to poltergeist activity than science. The science will not go mainstream until there is an easily digestable formula which underpins and predicts consistent results.

Meanwhile, the ongoing experimentation of anti-gravity propulsion takes place at such black locations as Area 51, and most probably accounts for the majority of UFO sightings around the globe. The day does not seem far off when some scientist will successfully sap into the zero point energy, which was predicted by Nikola Tesla a century ago. Let's hope it's the good guys (private sector Americans) that get there first. Unlimited energy = good thing. Controlled by Naziesque government rogues = bad thing.

Another interesting aspect of this cutting edge technology is the odd effect on space-time that can be achieved with high-RPM superconductive magnetrons. Is it possible that in attempting to build a viable flying saucer, the Nazis were actually attempting to build a time machine? It is notable that many alien abduction experiences claim to have seen soldiers in uniform aboard the offending ship. Betty Hill's 1961 account being the first and most famous. Strange days indeed. Mengele escaped to Argentina and Kammler escaped to the 5th dimension, only to torment us with continued genetic experimentation. Most peculiar, Momma. I'd like to presume the Nazis were defeated and not that they now control space-time.


Very entertaining   June 29, 2003
John M. Kelly (Sonoma, CA USA)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful

If you enjoy "X Files", "Roswell", even "Star Trek" for the entertainment value (as I do) you will probably like this book. If you are a passionate believer, or disbeliever, you won't. In "The Hunt for Zero Point" Nick Cook has crafted a very readable, entertaining novel around a subject for which there is little hard evidence, historical or current. And in a field which is rife with conspiracy theories and theorists he manages to underplay this aspect - as a respectable journalist should.

My father-in-law turned me on to this book. He is a taciturn fellow; his comment to me was "there is not a lot here, but you might enjoy it." He was right on both counts, and my guess is he should know. He was an electrical engineer, drafted into the Army during WWII, worked for ARPA, was posted to Germany towards the end of hostilities to help "clean up" after the Wehrmacht, and then went back to DARPA until he retired as a full colonel. Perhaps unsurprisingly, both of his sons work for large defense contractors managing "confidential" engineering projects.

So, regarding that conspiracy theory stuff? Hey, humans hide things from each other - you aren't telling your friends that you dress up in a tutu, suck your thumb and cry while your spouse spanks you, are you? We have our reasons. Our governments have their reasons (security) and our industries do too (to protect revenue).

Imagine trillions of dollars invested in a world-wide infrastructure, millions of people directly employed and many millions more indirectly, large profits and tax revenue generated, and maybe even a belief in the manifest destiny of humankind to fully utilize the resources that God has provided. Along comes a technology that will render the infrastructure obsolete, put all those people out of work, and destroy the profits and tax revenue - overnight. What do you do? You sit on the new technology until the resources are depleted (or until the asteroid strike). That's not a conspiracy, that's just common sense.

Recommended. Buy this book, and enjoy it. Then get on the web and find out that maybe it is not all smoke after all.