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 Excellent introduction to the Black Budget World June 26, 2006
Henry A. Eckstein (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I live in a city (Vancouver, BC, Canada) full of eccentric
personalities (Hutchison et al...) attempting to recreate the
many experiments and efforts of mostly World War II era
German scientists in finding and using Vacuum Energy for
propulsion, weapons systems and more esoteric machinations.
This book outlines early 20th century discoveries and the
more modern attempts to build upon those esoteric technologies
and gives the reader an overview of current black-budget,
cloak & dagger efforts of American, English, Russian
and even the Chinese in the hunt for zero-point energy.
Unfortunately due to time and money pressures
from his employers, (Janes Defence Weekly) the author
is unable to fully investigate the thousands of leads and
nuggets that require forensic-quality investigation and analysis
in his hunt for ZERO Point Energy. It's an interesting read
but like certain ethnic foods, the book quickly fills your mind
with anecdotes from the Black Budget World and casual
historical references, but for the technically astute reader
it leaves you wanting more...right after you finish reading it!
More Information, More Pictures, More Sources, More Dirt!
As a member of the media industry myself, this is a subject
I would love to able to dig into more deeply with the assistance
of the author. He could write the main story and I'll help dig
for the hidden bones! In short, this could have (and should
have) been a 700 page combination of reference book and modern
treasure hunting story.
I am eagerly waiting for a follow-up book that is
more in depth to the extent where it is a combination
of an encyclopedia, doctoral thesis and
how-to-build-our-own-devices book!
For those interested in Zero Point Energy, see related
subjects in the Black Budget World such as Vacuum Energy,
Sonoluminescence, Takomak Reactor, TR3B Astra, TR3a Black Manta,
"The Sport Model", Visual Stealth, Audio Stealth,
Stealth Blimp, X-Ray Laser, Rail Guns, Montauk Project,
Thomas Townsend Brown, Hutchison Effect, Searle Effect,
and if you're more practical and actually want to build
an anti-gravity-like flying craft yourself try
doing a search engine query for Ionic Lifters
(do not enclose in quotes), there are several devices
you can build or fly for a few tens to a hundred dollars
that use Coronal Discharge to fly.
Nazis, UFOs, Anti-Gravity, and Time Travel January 16, 2006
Brian Markowski (Cedar Rapids, IA)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
What I like about Nick Cook's book "The Hunt for Zero Point" is that it gives a sort of logical explanation for things like UFO's and that goofy but intriguing story often called the Philadelphia Experiment, where a U.S. warship supposedly moved through time and space back in 1943. It even touches on the Tunguska event, a supposed but still unexplained explosion that mysterious took out a chuck of Siberia in 1908. The sad thing about Cook's book is that not one iota of what he's implying can be proved. I have to give Cook credit. As a legitimate reporter he brings a certain amount of credibility to this book, and though he gets totally caught up in his investigation, even he seems to realize that it's a lost cause.
Cook's hypothesis is thus, that during WW II, Nazi's (and some Russians) were experimenting with devices that could decreases a objects gravitational pull, there by not only making it lighter and more fuel efficient but by also creating a craft that could travel faster, turn sharper, and go higher than any aircraft before it, all without all those nasty G forces effecting the pilot. It sounds too good to be true and Cook does do a good job of showing that this research was done both during and after the war. The question remains however if that research led anywhere. Cook says it did, his proof...UFO's. Yes, it's a reach but there's some logic here. What American pilots often called Foo Fighters and what we today call UFOs were first reported in mass during WW II. Cook believes that these were small prototype anti-gravitational devices sent up by the Germans. In fact the U.S. and Canada, using schematics that theoretically could have been of an anti-gravitation nature, built certain UFO-like devices after the war. On the record, the success of these devices were said to be poor.
Cook takes his theories further by saying that other devices connected to the anti-gravity research such as zero point energy (a inexhaustible supply of energy that exists in all things) and even a quantum engine that bends time and could lead to long distance space travel were perfected or close to perfected by the Nazi's and others during this time period. So what happened? Well, a lot of things, most notably the Nazi's lost the war. However, the real story here is how a government operates when it holds potentially world-changing technology. The "black programs" controlled by the U.S. government are so secret that they often seem to operate independently from any branch of government.
Cook believes that they are masters at distraction and deception. As a result Cooks hits a lot of black walls, but this proves almost entertaining as Cooks theories, because it's that resistance that makes you start to wonder if all this stuff is actually true.
excellent primer on the history of antigravity January 30, 2003
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
The author is the aviation editor of Jane's Defense Weekly, one of the most prestigious institutions that reports on the defense contractor industry. Consequently, you would expect his research to be first-rate, and you would be correct. In compiling research for this book, he traveled extensively across the U.S. and Europe to conduct personal interviews.He correctly documents how in the 1950s there was a tremendous amount of research into antigravity conducted by U.S. defense contractors and funded by the government. There were public statements by these contractors that they were only a few years away from deploying antigravity craft. Then, suddenly all such talk and publicly available information on these activities stopped. Since that time, the term "antigravity" has become a dirty word and neither the government nor defense contractors will touch it. Gee, I wonder why? There is a long history of individuals such as Searl, Carr, Schauberger, Hutchinson and Hamel that have claimed to have developed working antigravity devices out of their own garages. Recently, two Russian government scientists replicated Searl's SEG and verified the unusual and inexplicable results, including antigravity. If an individual working on their own can develop such technology, what do you think the government has developed with their unlimited black budgets? Does the U.S. government have working antigravity crafts? You better believe it. One ancillary effect connected to most antigravity devices is the unexplained ability of these devices to draw energy from some inexhaustable source, possibly zero point. This amounts to free, completely clean energy available to everyone. Not exactly something the "powers-that-be" get excited about, not to mention the prospect of someone like Hussein ending up with propulsion technology that can generate virtually unlimited speeds with the odd right-angle turn thrown in. As a consequence to all of this, antigravity/free-energy has become the most classified subject on the planet. I marvel at how the "powers that be" have managed to completely discredit the antigravity field outside of black projects, to the point that there is an automatic "giggle-factor" associated with the word. In order to accomplish this, a completely erroneous theory of gravity has been perpetuated. In actuality, gravity is a pseudo-force of electromagnetism, not a separate force in and of itself. However, things are about to change. We have reached the point where burning fossil fuels can no longer be tolerated. Therefore, a plan is in place to eliminate the current suppression of these technologies, and this will occur within about 10 years. This plan does not come from within the government itself. And, for those that do not believe in the reality of antigravity, I suggest you personally replicate the Hayasaka experiments, which are not difficult to do. Or, if you are more ambitious, get two copper plates 12 inches in diameter and one inch thick. Put one inch of acrylic between these plates (no air bubbles, please). Place one million volts DC across the plates and the device will levitate in the direction of the positive pole. A final note; the author completely missed the Searl work, which is a major gaffe, since they are both from England.
It's All In The Name February 24, 2004
T150 (Irvine, California United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Let us remember, the book is named "The HUNT for Zero Point". It's not "The Case for..." or "The Physics of..." I think the author cleverly hides a double-entendre in plain sight within the title. Has anti-gravity has been sought after? Does the author track down a possible history of this search? The book presents exactly what its title implies.It's a sufficiently presented trail of evidence, considering how elusive the subject is to begin with. There IS a Sam Spade tone, but it doesn't get in the way; your brain can filter it. The author doesn't plead a case for anti-gravity; he merely studies the possibility that development has taken place and ultimately, where that development might be today. By the end, you can easily follow his reasoning. Good fun.
Excellent Investigation June 16, 2006
themarsman (Georgetown, TX)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Nick Cook dives headlong into the highly classified world of black technology; successfully shining a megawatt spotlight on this nearly invisible realm. Cook jaunts from numerous American and European sites over the course of a decade (while maintaining his day job has an aerospace journalist), trying to pin down just who developed what technology when. The Nazis were heavily invested in antigravity technology. After the war, the Americans appear to have co-opted the technology (and the scientists) and have run with it ever since.
Cook not only delves into the "how" of antigravity...but also tries to answer a fundamental underlying question: If the research into antigravity technology has been going on for more than 50 years...where is the evidence? The evidence winds up in some unexpected places. Dusty archives. Abandoned mines. The apartment of an eccentric genius in Vancouver.
All of Cook's research into the world of antigravity appears well documented and meticuously thought-out. This being said, Cook makes some very startling claims, that, at times, I very much wanted to believe...and yet, I'd be lying if I said I believed all his claims verbatim. However, this is not meant to belittle his investigation in any fashion and I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the subject of antigravity.
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