9/11 - BYU’s Dr. Steven Jones Blows the Roof off a Utah Auditorium

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BYU's Dr. Steven Jones Blows the Roof off a Utah Auditorium

 

by Philip Sherman Gordon

 

On Wednesday, February 1, a quiet, " churchy-looking " gentleman in a

white shirt and tie walked into a packed auditorium on the campus of

Utah Valley State College and electrified the room like a rock star.

The 150-seat auditorium was filled to capacity, with every seat

occupied, and people sitting in the aisles from the stage floor to the

back of the room. Video cameras on tripods lined the back row. Two

documentary-film crews were in attendance, in addition to the school's

camera crew, and various independent journalists. Seven " spill-over "

rooms, with seating for 40-50 each, were also filled to capacity. On

this very conservative campus (in the most conservative county in the

most conservative state in the union), where community leaders pulled

out all the stops in 2004 to prevent Michael Moore from speaking as

part of his anti-Bush, pro-Kerry " Slacker Uprising Tour, " Dr. Steven

Jones, this pious professor from the Mormon Church-owned Brigham Young

University, calmly, gently, gave a simple physics lesson on the

collapse of the World Trade Center buildings, the implications of

which awed the audience with a sense of world-historical significance,

and implied an indictment of the present administration so utterly

devastating that it made Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 look like a Bush

apologia.

 

Dr. Jones argues that the physics behind the government's explanation

of the collapse of the Twin Towers on September 11 do not make sense,

and that a better (and perhaps only) explanation for their collapse

was that they were demolished, exactly the way structural engineers

bring down large buildings, by pre-positioned explosive devices set

off in precise sequences. He argues that the 650 degree Celsius

temperature of burning jet fuel would not have been hot enough to even

bend the steel girders of the WTC Towers, let alone to melt or

evaporate them, as recovered beams indicate. And even if it was hot

enough to evaporate the steel, the towers should not have collapsed as

they did, pancaking so perfectly into their own footprints. On the

rare times when such structures have failed (always due to

earthquakes), they have toppled over sideways. The towers would have

had to have been perfectly sliced, at every point along a horizontal

plane at exactly the same instant, for something even resembling a

pancaking effect to occur. And even if they did somehow pancake

perfectly into their own footprints due to a structural failure, they

would not have done it in the time it took for them to collapse,

falling at essentially the speed of an apple dropped from the top of

one of the towers, with nothing between it and the ground but thin

air. The steel and concrete in the floors that collapsed should have

taken some measurable time to break, and thus slowed the collapse

somewhat as it unfolded. And even if it did collapse, at super speed,

phwack phwack phwack, floor by floor, as fast as an apple falling

through the air, impelled by the weight of the decapitated structure

above it, its solid steel frame severed like a head by a flaming

guillotine, that does not explain the molten steel seen at the Ground

Zero clean-up site many days after the event. What could have caused

such heat? asked Professor Jones.

 

And on it went, point by point, for almost two hours. Nothing about

the physics of " what we know " about 9/11 seemed to add up. And all

that's not to mention the mysterious collapse of the forgotten WTC-7,

the third steel-frame building that imploded due to fire, not only

that day, but in the history of architectural design--the building

that was not hit by a plane, that was surrounded by other buildings

equally impacted but structurally undamaged by the collapse of the

towers, that, with no jet fuel or violent impact, but allegedly due to

a small number of scattered " debris fires, " collapsed, pancaking

perfectly into its own footprint, looking exactly like video images of

buildings being demolished by pre-positioned explosive devices.

Playing the one available video of WTC-7 collapsing at slow speed, Dr.

Jones used his laser pointer to indicate the explosive " squibs "

clearly seen shooting their way up the sides of the building as it

collapsed from the top center down. He showed still images of similar

micro-explosions on the sides of the Twin Towers, with steel beams

clearly visible, ejected out of the sides of the buildings, ahead of

the dust, blown out before the above portions collapsed.

 

It is a devastating presentation, and one could feel the

disequilibrium of 150 minds reeling at once. The defining moment of

contemporary American experience suddenly lost its definition. What

is the meaning of 9/11? What really happened that day? If these

things are true, the implications clearly point to some kind of

" inside job " involving the government of the United States of America.

(The Department of Defense, the FBI, and the CIA all had offices in

the mysteriously collapsed WTC-7. Is it reasonable that outside

terrorists could have infiltrated that building and filled it with

explosives? ) If the WTC was brought down by pre-positioned explosive

devices, somehow facilitated and covered up by the government, it

would be the most audacious conspiracy in human history. When before

have so many people been so spectacularly bamboozled, with so much

death and destruction, and such massive implications for geo-politics?

Never, that's when.

 

And that is the problem Dr. Jones is facing with his research. People

have knee-jerk reactions to " conspiracy theories, " at least to the

ones that do not make it into their established and trusted news

outlets. And the mainstream media, so far, despite a blip or two in

the New York Times, is taking a pass on this story. Yes, my skeptical

friends believe that the Bush administration cynically smeared the war

records of both John Kerry and John McCain during the 2000

presidential election through the use of shill agencies. Yes, they

believe there was suppression of black voters in Florida, and other

schemes to cheat their way into the White House in the 2000 election.

Yes, they believe the administration conspired to rig the

intelligence they used to justify their invasion of Iraq. Yes, if

they are regular readers of The New Yorker, they believe that the

election fraud was worse in 2004, with rigged ballot machines, in Ohio

in particular, being used to great effect. And, yes, they believe in

massive wrong-doing and cover-up regarding October Surprise and the

Iran/Contra affair, as well as the CIA-orchestrated overthrows of

democracies in Chile and Iran, to name only two well-known examples.

But no, they don't believe in conspiracy theories.

 

These are hardcore leftists who refuse to even entertain the question

of whether science supports the conclusion that the planes brought the

towers down. " Too many people would have to know about it for them to

get away with it, " one friend said. " They're not that smart, " said

another. " It's just not plausible, " said a third. The issues raised

by Professor Jones are not breaking along standard political fissures.

People's relative amounts of skepticism and credulity, rather than

their political affiliations, seem to determine their openness to

giving the professor's analysis a hearing. Jones himself claims to

have been a lifelong Republican, but now affiliates with no political

party. The audience Wednesday night was definitely not the usual

suspects of progressive professors and pierced and tattooed activists

and students who regularly gather to share criticism of the President,

although there were a few of those, too. Mostly, they looked like a

cross-section of average middle-Americans. But by the end of the

evening, it is no exaggeration to say that most had become political

radicals, not of the left and the right, but of the right and the

wrong.

 

If Dr. Jones's work ever breaks into the mainstream media, and the

rest of the country reacts the way the Utah County audience reacted,

traditional political divisions will evaporate like steel beams

exploded with thermite, and the whole lot of them, the Democrats and

the Republicans, will be swept away, along with the

military-industrial complex that has apparently managed to subvert the

constitution of these United States and to con the American public,

mesmerized by the shock of 9/11 and hypnotized by spell-binding

incantations of freedom and patriotism, into going along with their

mad plans for world domination.

 

Physics Professor Steven Jones Packs Lecture Hall and Overflow Rooms

Huge Crowd Hears of 9/11 Big Lie, WTC Controlled Demolition

 

Communications Professor Philip Gordon will be writing a story on the

talk for MUJCA-NET. Look for it to be up in a few days at http://mujca.com

 

http://www.gnn.tv/B12675 (great pictures!)

 

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

 

 

 

 

http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/163875/3/

 

Questions remain from 9/11 report, professor says

ANNA CHANG-YEN - Daily Herald

 

A BYU physics professor speaking on Wednesday night implied a

government cover-up of what really happened on Sept. 11, 2001, and

cast doubt on the blame placed on Osama bin Laden.

 

Professor Steven E. Jones suggested before the attacks the Bush

administration was seeking a way to increase military spending and

invade Iraq. The ensuing attacks on Iraq and Afghanistan have created

most of Muslims' disdain for America, he said.

 

He spoke at Utah Valley State College to a packed lecture room, and by

video to adjacent overflow rooms, sponsored by the Center for the

Study of Ethics.

 

Center director David Keller said, " The collapse of the World Trade

Center buildings illustrates a strange convergence of physics,

engineering, ethics and politics. "

(More at: http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/163875/3/)