Physicist's Theory of 9/11

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Physicist's Theory of 9/11

 

 

 

 

Physicist's Theory of 9/11

 

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,635198488,00.html

 

 

 

Physicist says heat substance felled WTC

Extremely hot fires caused structures to fail, BYU expert says

By Suzanne Dean

 

For the Deseret Morning News

 

EPHRAIM — A Brigham Young University physicist said he now

believes an incendiary substance called thermite, bolstered by sulfur,

was used to generate exceptionally hot fires at the World Trade Center

on 9/11, causing the structural steel to fail and the buildings to

collapse.

 

" It looks like thermite with sulfur added, which really is a very

clever idea, " Steven Jones, professor of physics at BYU, told a

meeting of the Utah Academy of Science, Arts and Letters at Snow

College Friday.

 

The government requires standard explosives to contain tag

elements enabling them to be traced back to their manufacturers. But

no tags are required in aluminum and iron oxide, the materials used to

make thermite, he said. Nor, he said, are tags required in sulfur.

 

Jones is co-chairman, with James H. Fetzer, a distinguished

professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota of Scholars for

9/11 Truth, a group of college faculty members who believe

conspirators other than pilots of the planes were directly involved in

bringing down New York's Trade Towers.

 

The group, which Jones said has 200 members, maintains a Web site

at http://www.st911.org. A 40-page paper by Jones, along with other

peer-reviewed and non-reviewed academic papers, are posted on the site.

 

Last year, Jones presented various arguments for his theory that

explosives or incendiary devices were planted in the Trade Towers, and

in WTC 7, a smaller building in the Trade Center complex, and that

those materials, not planes crashing into the buildings, caused the

buildings to collapse.

 

At that time, he mentioned thermite as the possible explosive or

incendiary agent. But Friday, he said he is increasingly convinced

that thermite and sulfur were the root causes of the 9/11 disaster.

 

He told college professors and graduate students from throughout

Utah gathered for the academy meeting that while almost no fire, even

one ignited by jet fuel, can cause structural steel to fail, the

combination of thermite and sulfur " slices through steel like a hot

knife through butter. "

 

He ticked off several pieces of evidence for his thermite fire

theory:

 

First, he said, video showed a yellow, molten substance splashing

off the side of the south Trade Tower about 50 minutes after an

airplane hit it and a few minutes before it collapsed. Government

investigators ruled out the possibility of melting steel being the

source of the material because of the unlikelihood of steel melting.

 

The investigators said the molten material must have been aluminum

from the plane.

 

But, said Jones, molten aluminum is silvery. It never turns

yellow. The substance observed in the videos " just isn't aluminum, " he

said.

 

But, he said, thermite can cause steel to melt and become yellowish.

 

Second, he cited video pictures showing white ash rising from the

south tower near the dripping, liquefied metal. When thermite burns,

Jones said, it releases aluminum-oxide ash. The presence of both

yellow-white molten iron and aluminum oxide ash " are signature

characteristics of a thermite reaction, " he said.

 

Another item of evidence, Jones said, is the fact that sulfur

traces were found in structural steel recovered from the Trade Towers.

Jones quoted the New York Times as saying sulfidization in the

recovered steel was " perhaps the deepest mystery uncovered in the

(official) investigation. " But, he said, sulfidization fits the theory

that sulfur was combined with thermite to make the thermite burn even

hotter than it ordinarily would.

 

Jones said a piece of building wreckage had a gray substance on

the outside that at one point had obviously been a dripping molten

metal or liquid. He said that after thermite turns steel or iron into

a molten form, and the metal hardens, it is gray.

 

He added that pools of molten metal were found beneath both trade

towers and the 47-story WTC 7. That fact, he said, was never discussed

in official investigation reports.

 

And even though WTC 7 was not connected to the Trade Towers — in

fact, there was another building between it and the towers —and even

though it was never hit by a plane, it collapsed. That suggests, he

said, that it came down because a thermite fire caused its structural

steel to fail.

 

Jones said his studies are confined to physical causes of the

collapses, and he doesn't like to speculate about who might have

entered the buildings and placed thermite and sulfur. But he said 10

to 20 people " in the know, " plus other people who didn't know what

they were doing but did what they were told, could have placed

incendiary packages over several weeks.

 

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