March 14, 2004: Antigravity and Zero Point Energy - Nick Cook
March 14, 2004: Antigravity and Zero Point Energy - Nick Cook  
Podcast: The Art Bell Archive
Published On: Sat Aug 02 2025
Description: Art Bell interviews Nick Cook, aviation editor for the prestigious Jane's Defence Weekly, about his decade-long investigation into antigravity and zero-point energy documented in his book The Hunt for Zero Point. Cook describes gaining access to top-secret military facilities in both the United States and the former Soviet Union during his 18-year career as a defense journalist, and shares his assessment that deployable prototype anti-satellite weapons almost certainly exist.Cook explains how his research into antigravity led him to zero-point energy, the theoretical energy present in the quantum vacuum of empty space. He describes experiments by Russian physicist Evgeny Podkletnov, whose work with superconductors produced a measurable three-percent weight loss that should be impossible under conventional physics. While NASA failed to replicate the result before funding was cut, Cook notes that Aviation Week and Space Technology has begun reporting on zero-point energy as a potential deep-space propulsion source.The conversation connects these threads to Nikola Tesla's pioneering work over a century ago and the FBI's seizure of his papers after his death. Cook and Art discuss the urgent need for new energy sources as fossil fuel supplies dwindle and environmental damage accelerates, with Cook expressing confidence that real science underpins these seemingly heretical physics.