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Professor thinks bombs, not planes, toppled WTC
By Elaine Jarvik
Deseret Morning News</A>
The physics of 9/11 — including how fast and symmetrically one of the
World Trade Center buildings fell — prove that official explanations of
the collapses are wrong, says a Brigham Young University physicsprofessor.
In fact, it's likely that there were "pre-positionedexplosives" in all three
buildings at ground zero, says Steven E. Jones.
In a paper posted online Tuesday and accepted for peer-reviewed publication
next year, Jones adds his voice to those of previousskeptics, including the
authors of the Web site <A HREF=" http://www.wtc7.net">http://www.wtc7.net</A>,
whose researchJones quotes. Jones' article can be found at <A
HREF=" http://www.physics.byu.edu/research/energy/htm7.html">
http://www.physics.byu.edu/research/energy/htm7.html</A>.
Stuart Johnson, Deseret Morning News
"Itis quite plausible that explosives were pre-planted in all three (WTC)
buildings," BYU physics professor Steven E. Jones says.
Jones, who conducts research in fusion and solar energy at BYU, is calling
for an independent, international scientific investigation "guided not by
politicized notions and constraints but rather by observations andcalculations.
"It is quite plausible that explosives were pre-planted in all
threebuildings and set off after the two plane crashes — which were actually a
diversion tactic," he writes. "Muslims are (probably) not to blamefor bringing
down the WTC buildings after all," Jones writes.
As for speculation about who might have planted the explosives, Jones said,
"I don't usually go there. There's no point in doing that untilwe do the
scientific investigation."
Previous investigations, including those of FEMA, the 9/11 Commission and
NIST (the National Institutes of Standards and Technology), ignore the physics
and chemistry of what happened on Sept. 11, 2001, to the Twin Towers and the
47-story building known as WTC 7, he says. The official explanation — that
fires caused structural damage that caused the buildings to collapse —
can't be backed up by either testing or history, he says.
Jones acknowledges that there have been "junk science" conspiracy theories
about what happened on 9/11, but "the explosive demolition hypothesis better
satisfies tests of repeatability and parsimony andtherefore is not 'junk
science.' "
In a 9,000-word article that Jones says will be published in the book "The
Hidden History of 9/11," by Elsevier, Jones offers these arguments:
• The threebuildings collapsed nearly symmetrically, falling down into
their footprints, a phenomenon associated with "controlled demolition" —
and even then it's very difficult, he says. "Why would terrorists undertake
straight-down collapses of WTC-7 and the Towers when 'toppling over' falls
would require much less work and would do much more damage in downtown Manhattan?"
Jones asks. "And where would they obtain the necessary skills and access to
the buildings for a symmetrical implosion anyway? The 'symmetry data'
emphasized here, along with otherdata, provide strong evidence for an 'inside' job."
• Nosteel-frame building, before or after the WTC buildings, has ever
collapsed due to fire. But explosives can effectively sever steel columns, he
says.
• WTC 7, which was not hit by hijackedplanes, collapsed in 6.6 seconds,
just .6 of a second longer than it would take an object dropped from the roof
to hit the ground. "Where is the delay that must be expected due to
conservation of momentum, one of the foundational laws of physics?" he asks. "That is,
as upper-falling floors strike lower floors — and intact steel support
columns — the fall must be significantly impeded by the impacted mass. .
. . How do the upper floors fall so quickly, then, and still conserve momentum
in the collapsing buildings?" The paradox, he says, "is easily resolved by
the explosive demolition hypothesis, whereby explosives quickly removed
lower-floor material, including steel support columns, and allow near free-fall-speed
collapses." These observations were notanalyzed byFEMA, NIST nor the 9/11
Commission, he says.
• With non-explosive-caused collapse there would typically be a piling
up of shattering concrete. But most of the material in the towers was
converted to flour-like powder while the buildings were falling, he says. "How can we
understand this strange behavior, without explosives? Remarkable, amazing
— and demanding scrutiny since the U.S . government-funded reports failed to
analyze this phenomenon."
•Horizontal puffs of smoke, known as squibs, were observed proceeding
up the side the building, a phenomenon common when pre-positioned explosives
are used to demolish buildings, he says.
• Steelsupports were "partly evaporated," but it would require
temperatures near 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit to evaporate steel — and neither
office materials nor diesel fuel can generate temperatures that hot. Fires caused
by jet fuel from the hijacked planes lasted at most a few minutes, and office
material fires would burn out within about 20 minutes in any given location,
he says.
• Molten metal found inthe debris of the World Trade Center may have
been the result of a high-temperature reaction of a commonly used explosive such
as thermite, he says. Buildings not felled by explosives "have insufficient
directed energy to result in melting of large quantitiesof metal," Jones says.
• Multiple loud explosions in rapidsequence were reported by numerous
observers in and near the towers, and these explosions occurred far below the
region where the planesstruck, he says.
Jones says he became interested in the physics of the WTC collapse after
attending a talk last spring given by a woman who had had a near-death experience.
The woman mentioned in passing that "if you think the World Trade Center
buildings came down just due to fire, you have a lot of surprises ahead of you,"
Jones remembers, atwhich point "everyone around me started applauding."
Following several months of study, he presented his findings at a talk at BYU
in September.
Jones says he would like the government to release 6,899 photographs and
6,977 segments of video footage for "independent scrutiny." He would also like to
analyze a small sample of the molten metal found atGround Zero.
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