High tech and top secrets

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http://smh.com.au/articles/2002/10/05/1033538810348.html

High tech and top secrets

By Nathan CochraneOctober 8 2002Next

Government conspiracies to suppress revolutionary technology have been a gold

mine for movie makers but a British journalist believes that the truth may be

at least as strange as the fiction.

Nick Cook, a Jane's Defense Weekly aviation editor and an award-winning veteran

of 18 years in journalism, has written The Hunt for Zero Point, which reads

like an X-Files season wrapped in painstaking investigative journalism.

Cook takes us to the crash site of a stealth aircraft, Nazi Germany, NASA and

British Aerospace. We are with him in the deepest dens of black operations

research facilities - including the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works - as he speaks

to aviation's new pioneers in his quest to uncover what could be mankind's

greatest secret.

His 10-year quest covers the US, Canada, Britain and Europe. His credentials as

a defence establishment trade journalist allow him access to many specialists

who would otherwise be out of reach.

Cook contends that the US government has been hiding many amazing technologies,

such as Zero Point energy, anti-gravity craft, time travel and dimensional

jumps, since World War II.

The theory of Zero Point energy is that there are electrical field fluctuations

taking place continuously around us and that these could provide us with an

infinite reservoir of energy. If we could tap this reservoir we could power

ships to the stars and end our dependence on fossil fuels. Zero Point energy

could also lead to the most destructive weapon ever created - physicists

interviewed for the book say there's enough power in a coffee cup to boil all

the world's oceans.

Drawing on interviews with physicists and engineers, Cook claims that just about

every major US aerospace maker has been interested in Zero Point energy at some

stage but that development went "black" - above Top Secret - in the 1950s. He

says that last year the Japanese electronics giant Toshiba was negotiating to

buy the technology from a European scientist.

Cook also traverses older ground, such as Operation Paperclip, the US project to

recruit Nazi scientists and technologies after the war. He says that much of

America's post-war power stems from the organised theft of technology from the

Nazis.

Hundreds of tons of paperwork and blueprints were removed from Germany in the

last months and the aftermath of the war by an organised army of more than 5000

American and British plunderers. Cook says that this corrupted the US, because

of the moral contagion of Nazi experiments.

If it wasn't for Cook's JDW imprimatur, and the awesome amount of information he

has collected, the book could be written off as New Age zaniness. Although the

book lacks a smoking gun, the collection of evidence is compelling. There's

certainly scope for a sequel.

If there is a flaw, it's that the book's existence seems to undermine its

premise. If the US and other governments have knowledge of Zero Point

technology and have worked to suppress this knowledge from becoming public as

Cook asserts, why did they allow this book to be published?

Zero Point is an engrossing read. Taken as a work of fiction it's absorbing;

taken as a work of investigative journalism it's frightening.

The Hunt for Zero Point by Nick Cook (432 pages), Arrow, RRP $24.95.Tat Twam Asi

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