American Antigravity – Nick Cook’s “The Hunt for Zero Point” A fun site for those of you who actually think we have secret anti-gravity technology just waiting to be introduced. Anti-gravity is the lead horse in the crackpot trifecta of anti-gravity, perpetual motion machines and time travel. Coming in fourth and ffth are cold fusion and sat-based mind control. Also in the race: pills that turn water into gasoline and out-of-body travel. Whatever your favs, anti-gravity is at the top of my list. Note how there is always the “disappearing research.”
“The Hunt for Zero Point” begins with Nick Cook’s quest for knowledge into the realm of antigravity technology and follows his research into the history of the technology and the people who developed it.
Cook’s interest in Antigravity began when he stumbled across an article on antigravity technology written in the 1950’s that proclaimed a solution to the problem of generating antigravity within a matter of a few years. According to the article, several major aerospace firms were working on the problem, and coming up with preliminary results to support this new form of airborne transportation in the near future.
As a writer for Jane’s Defense Review, Cook was amazed at the scope of research into Antigravity cited in this 1950’s article, and surprised that within less than 2 years all mention of this research had disappeared.
related links:
off beat research
Cold Fusion message board
Great and little known crackpot theories (many new!)
Crackpot links
Come on John, get with it. Syndrome used a Zero Point ring in the movie the The Incredibles. You can’t fake that kind of stuff. It’s got to be real!
I seem to rember a story about Dr. Richard Feynman and anti-gravity. He was asked, after a lecture, if he though anti-gravity would ever be a reality.
In his Feynman-esque manner, he asked whether the student would accept, as success, a device which would take you off the surface of the Earth to a pre-determined height for a pre-determined amount of time and return you safely down.
The student agreed that would be a good definition.
Feynman laughed, said, “Elevator,” and left the hall.
Rich Galen
I don’t understand why you find this stuff so fascinating, John. It appeals to our basest, supersticious nature, and I find it embarrassing.
It reminds me too much of the left’s conspiracy theories. Whether it is the military industrial complex, the CIA starting every war, or the “right-wing conspiracy,” all of which don’t exist or are completely out in the open.
The same could be said about the right and the Homosexual Agenda. Or the Muslim conspiracy theories about Jews and 9/11.
Blame the latest or longstanding bogeyman, and people will at least give the theory the benefit of the doubt, with only circumstancial or minimal evidence, if any at all.
Given the same people’s penchant to believe in government corruption and the overwhelming power of the military and business, imagine the money that could be made if these secrets were revealed, patented, and mass-produced.
WHAT?
You guys aren’t in the loop?
I thought for sure all of you guys were part of the…, ooops, oh, uuhmmm, never mind, my mistake. There is really nothing to it. Ha ha ha, fooled ya, ha ha, gulp.
Unlike the rest of you, I have read Nick Cook’s book. It was very interesting and well researched. He’s not some nutjob with conspiracy theories. He researched anti-gravity technology that had been pursued by the Nazi’s. In fact, NASA is currently doing research on the same technology Cook covers in his book. Maybe you all ought to read it before jumping to conclusions about it.
As for secret projects. Let’s see, U2, SR-71, F-117, B-2 and countless others. If you told somebody we could shoot a missile out of the sky with a laser or incapacitate rioters with a microwave beam 20 years ago, they would have told you that you had been watching too much Star Trek. Yet today, we can do these things. The fact is, our government is very good at developing new weapons and vehicles and keeping them secret until the technology is commonplace.
Hey Robert,
I guess that you’re in the loop then.
whew !!!
I sure am glad I’m not the only one. And to think that they believe I am the only crazy one. Did you hear they finally got the transporter to reassemble everything on the same continent?
Well … I haven’t done this before, but after reading some of the inane comments left by some folks on this site, I just felt compelled to respond – just in general of course, as the question of anything having to do with UFOs/anti-gravity/ETs tends to bring out the slack-jawed moron in most people.
Undeniable, irrefutable proof exists that extraterrestrials exist – to postulate otherwise is to deny 60 years (at least) of evidence – with a mountain of it coming within the last 20 or so due to the Freedom of Information Act. I suggest that some folks out there who like to see the drivel they’ve written in print spend about 10 years reading what is currently out there on the subject before indulging in the crap that they spew, dismissing the whole subject matter.
[edited — see commenting guidelines]
You guys need to read about Prof John Searle and his S.E.G. I fully support Nick Cook in his quest to find out the truth, and such a world changing technology would definately be covered up by the governments, as there is still too much money to be made out of Oil.
I am an Astrophysicist who studied in the UK, and i can tell you for fact, everything we know today about Gravity is all based on theories that only hold to certain points, because the Scientists cannot explain the areas these theories dont hold.
Gravity is just a force that has an opposite,just like everything in Nature, and it is just a matter of time until we figure i out.
keep hunting.
Jon.
Hi John —
Interesting comments on American Antigravity. I try to cover the range of BPP technology, which includes a bit of the crackpot, along with a fair amount of real, honest to God hard-science.
The idea is to keep it edgey, compelling, and yet reach a diverse audience. We’re working with the military, university scientists, defense contractors, and lots of indy-inventors, so we have to try to keep a steady middle-ground approach that doesn’t offend any of them.
I rebuilt the website this summer to feature more of a story-driven approach, and in the process added a ton of AIP & AIAA publications on the subject. Again, there’s a sizeable body of mainstream scientists doing excellent research in this area, and it’s unfortunate that they have difficulty reaching the general public.
I thought your commentary on the “tri-fecta” was humorous: unfortunately all too true in this emerging scientific community. For my part, I publish about the following:
1. Gravity Control, Modification, Nullification
2. Electromagnetic, MHD, and MAD Propulsion Systems
3. Ion-Wind and the Biefeld-Brown Effect
4. Cold Fusion (very rarely – industry stuff)
5. New Energy (ie: micro-fusion, not perpetual motion)
For the most part, I try to stick to stuff about space & more efficient ways to get there (and how to travel more rapidly once we’re there).
Like most of us, the older I get the more conservative I become: the relationships that we build in the community become ties that bind, meaning that I have become a bit more risk-averse in what I publish about. However, the spirit behind the endeavor doesn’t change, and the hope remains an efficient alternative to rockets.
Thanks & Best wishes!
Tim Ventura
Since you Earthlings are bound to stumble on the truth sooner or latert – very well, I, Ming the Merciless, shall tell you: actually there really are UFOs, and I know because I sent them. The the story by Nick whoever is just a coverup. After all, Nazi Germany and anigravity are two medium-size stories, and their combined effect may be equal to and hence effectively distract from the Real True Whopper, namely UFOs. Cover up a Big Lie by a big lie, you see. Clever, is it not? Now you know why I rule Planet Mongo, not you.
As to why the research publications on antigravity suddenly disappeared, I would have thought the reason was obvious. Did you not see me tell Dr Zarkov that I had need of great scientists? And there they were neatly collected together in America all ripe for the kidn- uh, plucking. So of course they stopped working for you and writing any more, because they now work for me, as willing servants. The secret of their willingness is simple enough: what do you think will happen to all their families otherwise? Students of mine like Saddam the Arab do likewise. For I am not known as Merciless for nothing. Obey me or die. Nyah ha ha ha hah!
You missed the biggest crackpot theory of all!
You see we’re all made up of vibrating, gyrating, oscillating balls of yarn. And Shroedinger’s Cheshire Cat hides the needles in his 10, 11, or 26 dimensional haystack right along with the dice Einstein was looking for. (Which one he can’t remeber exactly because he forgot to collapse the wave function.) Just ask Michio Kaku!
Hmph! maybe that’s were God left the Higgs particle highly energetic physicists have been looking for, but keeps geting lost but never found, but did find once, but lost again, but need the Ultra Wonder Bra Super Duper Collider to find again and this times the charm!
And did you hear! Neutrinos are really left-handed Lilliputian lesbian transsexual sissy particles! (not that there’s anything wrong with that.) The proper term for it is “flavor hopping” Rocky road meets Rock Hudson! The Solar Missing Link is solved!
Central Dogma
I had to laugh at some of the breathtaking arrogance and ignorance displayed by some of the respondents on this page. I was particularly amused by the paradigm-bound Mr Dvorak’s sneering condescension in the opening paragraph’s regarding OOBT (out-of-body-travel)…..like the blind vehemently denying the existence of colour simply because they cannot see it …one just has to laugh.
Here’s how it is…. OOBT is real – there exists a wealth of evidence to confirm this and I have experienced it myself on quite a few occasions.
[edited for length — see commenting guidelines]
I’ve been into this subject for a while.. I firmly believe the evidence exists for the existance of anti-gravity, electro-gravitiacs.. call it what you will…. and as for the ET’s well they could very well exist too. Idiots who dismiss these things out of hand… are just that.. idiots.