911 Demo: BYU's Prof Jones Has Wide Academic Support

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911 Demo: BYU's Prof Jones Has Wide Academic Support

 

BYU Professor Has Plenty of Company in the Academic Community,

Including 60 Faculty Members from Two Utah Universities

Who Concur a Controlled Demolition Most Likely Brought

Down the WTC and Further Investigation Is Needed

 

 

By Greg Szymanski

11-15-5

 

 

Professor Steven E. Jones is another in the long line of conservatives

in the political and academic world joining the 9/11 truth movement

and asking to open up further investigations on the true cause of 9/11.

 

 

The BYU physics professor who believes the WTC collapsed from a

controlled demolition isn't alone in the academic community, as a

group of more than 60 colleagues from two universities also agreed

with Professor Steven E. Jones' conclusions.

 

Jones told the Arctic Beacon Saturday in a telephone conversation from

Provo, Utah, he first presented his explosive conclusions at Brigham

Young University (BYU) on September 22, to 60 people from the BYU and

Utah Valley State College faculties, including professors of

Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Geology, Mathematics and Psychology.

 

After presently scientific arguments in favor of the controlled

demolition theory, Jones said everyone in attendance from all

backgrounds, conservative and liberal, were in total agreement further

investigation was needed.

 

" I was quite surprised how my conclusions were received, " said Jones,

adding he plans to give two continue telling the public how he came to

his startling conclusions essentially ripping apart the official

government story that jet fuel brought down the towers, including

Building 7.

 

" In fact, after I researched how Building 7 fell, I am certain there

existed pre-positioned explosives to bring down the three buildings. "

 

Jones added that the contingent of faculty members at the September

seminar were all in agreement that the government needed to " come

clean " and release more that 6,900 photographs and close to 7,000

segments of video footage, now being held from independent

investigation by the FBI and other agencies.

 

Since day one, the Bush administration has safely guarded much of the

9/11evidence, including the WTC steel hauled away by FEMA and

eye-witness testimony of basement explosions censored by the 9/11

Commission and the state sponsored press, as well as discrediting many

other scientists or academics like Jones who have disagreed with the

official story.

" We are calling for the release of all the data, including the videos

and photos, in order that a cross-disciplinary, preferably

international team of scientists and engineers can reach an

independent conclusion, " said Jones, adding all 60 professors in

attendance agreed with this course of action.

 

" Since I decided to come forward with my findings, I have found the

people in the 9/11 community very supportive and helpful. I hope my

contribution will one day help get at the truth of what really

happened and specifically how the towers collapsed. "

 

Jones' theory on the way the towers collapsed was presented in a 9,000

word formal paper already approved for publication in an upcoming

academic journal. The following is a partial explanation of how and

why he came to his conclusions that the WTC most likely collapsed due

to pre-positioned explosives. He writes:

 

" In writing this paper, I call for a serious investigation of the

hypothesis that WTC 7 and the Twin Towers were brought down, not just

by damage and fires, but through the use of pre-positioned explosives.

 

" I consider the official FEMA, NIST, and 9-11 Commission reports that

fires plus damage alone caused complete collapses of all three

buildings. And I present evidence for the explosive-demolition

hypothesis, which is suggested by the available data, testable and

falsifiable, and yet has not been analyzed in any of the reports

funded by the US government.

 

And the reasoning behind his conclusions can be summed up as follows:

 

* The three buildings 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 other data, provide strong evidence for an 'inside' job. "

* No steel-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 hijacked planes, 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 not

analyzed by FEMA, 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.

 

* Steel supports 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 in the 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 quantities of metal, " Jones says.

 

* Multiple loud explosions in rapid sequence were reported by numerous

observers in and near the towers, and these explosions occurred far

below the region where the planes struck, he says.

 

For Jones' full report go to

www.physics.byu.edu/research/energy/htm7.html.

 

 

Greg Szymanski is an independent investigative journalist.