"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.