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Antiochus Epiphanes
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hmmm, seems like one of the more qualified expert opinions we have seen! any comments from the skeptics of this theory?

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,635160132,00.html

Deseret Morning News, Thursday, November 10, 2005

Y. professor thinks bombs, not planes, toppled WTC

By Elaine Jarvik
Deseret Morning News

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 physics professor.

In fact, it's likely that there were "pre-positioned explosives" 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 previous skeptics, including the authors of the Web site http://www.wtc7.net, whose research Jones quotes. Jones' article can be found at http://www.physics.byu.edu/research/energy/htm7.html.

"It is quite plausible that explosives were pre-planted in all three (WTC) buildings," BYU physics professor Steven E. Jones says.

Stuart Johnson, Deseret Morning News

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 and calculations.

"It is quite plausible that explosives were pre-planted in all three buildings and set off after the two plane crashes — which were actually a diversion tactic," he writes. "Muslims are (probably) not to blame for 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 until we 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 and therefore 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 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.

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, at which 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 at Ground Zero.


 
Posted : 11/11/2005 11:01 am
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Note that he says it was "plausible" that explosives were placed in the building. Well it is also "plausible" that alien Kamikaze pilots, who are invisible and have the ability to possess humans, hit the building. After all, there is no way of DISPROVING the existence of the alien Kamikazes. However, as "plausible" as this may be, there is still no proof to suggest that they did it, and that's where the burden lies.

1. He is a physics professor, he clearly has no understanding of demolitions, engineering, or architecture.

2. Note that he repeats the same misconceptions about the 9-11 event and the same strawman tactics used by other conspiracy nuts. His arguments are identical to the other conspiracy theorists.

3. #2 is a perfect example of how conspiracy theories start. You start with an individual predisposed to believe in some kind of a conspiracy. Taking stock of all the knowledge he personally has of the event- and assuming that what he knows thus far is what EVERYBODY knows. As a result of this, and as you have seen demonstrated on this board numerous times, conspiracy theorists often get even the smallest details wrong regarding these events. The espousing of these ideas, spread far enough, begins to attract others who are impressed by the alleged "inconsistencies". Nobody ever takes the time to do actual get-out-of-the-house-and-dig research, and they never trace the stories they hear to the source to check if even the basic facts are real.

James Randi did an interesting experiment on this same phenomenon, which has been the meat-and-potatoes of the UFO movement for decades. If you were to say on the radio that you witnessed "strange lights" over some local highway or landmark on your way to the studio- sure enough you will find hundreds of people coming forth to corraborate your story with lurid details.


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Posted : 11/11/2005 11:27 am
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AE, I believe that most people who visit this forum would agree that the jews, and their shabboz goy servants, control the "mainstream" media. Correct?

Why would the masters of the media allow the very same media, that they own and control, to be used against them?


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Posted : 11/11/2005 11:46 am
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Note that he says it was "plausible" that explosives were placed in the building. Well it is also "plausible" that alien Kamikaze pilots, who are invisible and have the ability to possess humans, hit the building. After all, there is no way of DISPROVING the existence of the alien Kamikazes. However, as "plausible" as this may be, there is still no proof to suggest that they did it, and that's where the burden lies.............

well the government conveniently removed all the evidence so let's not be to tough on people resorting to limited evidence! in other known incidents such as Waco, the government denied access to the disaster site, then hid evidence which went against them, such as the metal door showing bullets entering the compound from the outside, not the inside. the door was "lost" and then found. govenrment agents that "lost" it were ultimately punished for suppressing exculpatory evidence.

1. He is a physics professor, he clearly has no understanding of demolitions, engineering, or architecture.
............

Come on now, engineering and demolitions and architecture are all 3 applied arts or technologies that are deriavative of the core scientific principles of physics. So I would have to disagree with you there quite strongly.


 
Posted : 11/11/2005 11:48 am
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Note that he says it was "plausible" that explosives were placed in the building. Well it is also "plausible" that alien Kamikaze pilots, who are invisible and have the ability to possess humans, hit the building. After all, there is no way of DISPROVING the existence of the alien Kamikazes. However, as "plausible" as this may be, there is still no proof to suggest that they did it, and that's where the burden lies.

By the same token, JP, that's how superficial pooh-poohs usually begin: by comparing a plausible and reasonable, if perhaps non-specialist, account of what happened with a ludicrous alternative account (alien Kamikazes).

1. He is a physics professor, he clearly has no understanding of demolitions, engineering, or architecture.

"Clearly"? How so clearly? As a physics professor, he'd have a good general grasp of the thermodynamics, turbulence, and momentum tensor field of an explosion. On top of that, you really don't KNOW that he DOESN'T have specialist experience in modelling explosions. So why did you say "clearly"?

2. Note that he repeats the same misconceptions about the 9-11 event and the same strawman tactics used by other conspiracy nuts. His arguments are identical to the other conspiracy theorists.

Conspiracy nuts is a ZOG buzz phrase. An earlier use of the expression was to denigrate anyone who thought that the Jews might have decisive control within the mass media.

James Randi did an interesting experiment on this same phenomenon, which has been the meat-and-potatoes of the UFO movement for decades. If you were to say on the radio that you witnessed "strange lights" over some local highway or landmark on your way to the studio- sure enough you will find hundreds of people coming forth to corraborate your story with lurid details.

Uh-huh.

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."

In contrast with the yahoos in your "strange lights over some local highway" comparison, this guy is a physics professor, and what he has said about concrete being powdered by explosives but not powdered by fuel fires and falls is unarguably true. Without explosives, the WTC concrete would not have been powdered, but merely broken into chunks. That's TRUE, J.P. As in "it can be demonstrated." Kerosene fires don't break concrete at all. A fall from 300 meters breaks concrete slabs into bits, but does not powderize them. As you analyze these facts, what has yet to be shown you, what is it that you require, in order to acknowledge that no fire-and-fall powdered all that concrete?

Not to be insulting, but you've begun sounding like certain people who don't want to acknowledge what the lack of prussian blue on the alleged Nazi extermination building's bricks means.

Jerry Abbott


 
Posted : 11/11/2005 11:53 am
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Slovjanski, your nik claims to be the "Voice of Reason" and yet you don't use reason you use implausible examples and a snearing attitude. It's fine to approach a controversial subject with caution. But you merely obfuscate a reasonable approach to the problem. What's your point?

The professor is advancing legitimate objections to the doctored data that the government produced.

Even the New York Firefighters claim that it was an inside job since they have been slapped with a federal gag order not to talk about what they observed on that day. And they were prevented from investigating the disaster site to find the causes of the collapse -- which is their official duty as firemen.

Factor in the dancing and cheering groups of Jews who were caught videotaping the disaster, many of whom were later proven to be Mossad operatives who worked for the Israeli moving company that had offices in the towers (who else could move stuff around a big building than a moving company?), and factor in a lot of other FACTS, and you can put the pieces of the puzzle together with ease. The whole thing was a Mossad operation with the complicity of the Bush White House.

Don't be surprised if this professor who is raising these questions is found to have committed "suicide" or perhaps is accidentally run over by a cement truck.


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Posted : 11/11/2005 12:08 pm
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Squibs on WTC7


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Posted : 11/11/2005 12:18 pm
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1. He is a physics professor, he clearly has no understanding of demolitions, engineering, or architecture.

Why not? Having a good knowledge of physics clearly helps understanding engineering or demolitions, and he may have other formal education besides his academic titles in physics. For instance, Henri Poincaré, the man who really invented special relativity, had a formal education as a mining engineer besides his education as a mathematician.

2. Note that he repeats the same misconceptions about the 9-11 event and the same strawman tactics used by other conspiracy nuts. His arguments are identical to the other conspiracy theorists.

This is no refutation at all. In fact, the label 'conspiracy theory' could in principle be attached to any political theory which acknowledges the fact that group interests (like Jewish interests) are often a driving force behind political developments.

James Randi did an interesting experiment on this same phenomenon, which has been the meat-and-potatoes of the UFO movement for decades. If you were to say on the radio that you witnessed "strange lights" over some local highway or landmark on your way to the studio- sure enough you will find hundreds of people coming forth to corraborate your story with lurid details.

Now, this really has nothing at all to do with what we are discussing here. Have you ever written a paper which was published in a peer-reviewed journal? Comparing this to gossip about UFOs is fatuous.

It seems to me that you have difficulties admitting that you may be wrong about this one. If you really were a voice of reason, you would not have engaged in any attempt to defend or refute the theory that 9/11 was the handiwork of Arabs. After all, the problem is very complex. It is perfectly reasonable to adopt the view that we are, at least for the time being, unable to find out the truth about 9/11 because this is an explosive issue and because the Jew has destroyed the independence of science in the media in the western world.

You claim (correctly so) that some 9/11 conspiracy theorists hold irrational views and that this may damage the reputation of our movement. But being seen as a movement paralyzed by infighting and split into sectarian factions is probably equally destructive, and the often personally insulting style of your responses to the 9/11 threads has certainly contributed to that. Without your fighting against the windmills, these threads probably would have only 1/3 of their actual length.


 
Posted : 11/11/2005 12:24 pm
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If the theory that the WTC towers and another WTC building were demolished with explosives is true, consider what it means.

It means that the US government has ordered or condoned a military attack on a civilian target within the territory of the United States of America. Whereas the politicians within the US government have been carrying out racial treason for a long time, this would be the first incident since the Civil War for which a sitting US president committed a treasonous war crime against the people he had promised to serve and the Constitution he was sworn to uphold. Abraham Lincoln could argue that he was trying to preserve the country as a whole by attacking it in part. Bush couldn't even do that much.

It means that the US government, Bush in particular, has murdered or condoned the murder of thousands of US citizens (or reasonable facsimians thereof) in order to achieve some political goal of his, or the political goal of someone to whom he is beholden.

Shot heard round the world?

That's why the Establishment works so hard to decry the explosion theory as the goofy invention of Conspiracy Nuts.

Jerry Abbott


 
Posted : 11/11/2005 12:30 pm
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According to the American Heritage Dictionary, the word "Plausible" means "apparently or conceivably true". I don't think that the idea of "alien kamikaze pilots" is apparently or conceivably true; however, the idea of pre-placed explosives is.



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Posted : 11/11/2005 12:35 pm
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jews did wtc lol



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Posted : 11/11/2005 12:39 pm
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hmmm, seems like one of the more qualified expert opinions we have seen! any comments from the skeptics of this theory?

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,635160132,00.html

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Posted : 11/11/2005 12:53 pm
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If the WTC was indeed imploded, arabs would automatically be blamed (because they had already tried it before). So, what purpose was served by crashing planes into them at the same time? Or was that just a serendipitous event?


 
Posted : 11/11/2005 1:52 pm
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Well if you are trying to create fear and chaos and rile up the 'mericans, you need to do something big that gets attention, and that was pretty big. That way they are more "pliable" for things like the Patriot Act. "Save us, Big Brother, Save us!"



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Posted : 11/11/2005 2:30 pm
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If the WTC was indeed imploded, arabs would automatically be blamed (because they had already tried it before). So, what purpose was served by crashing planes into them at the same time? Or was that just a serendipitous event?

I think that the hijackings were bona fide. We do know that the Israelis were following around Muhammed Atta and that US milint team "ABle Danger" or whatever, had their eyes on them too. So if the USA and Israel knew where they were, that they were alqueda, is it possible they knew the plan, and actually let them go ahead with it, and leveraged the incident with a demolition? So the 'Rabs to catch the blame?

I mean that would be a pretty complex stunt, but it wouldnt have been impossible.

Still, you make a good point.

I think we have to not just believe what we would want to believe, but try and be objective, and not give credence to unsupported theories.


 
Posted : 11/11/2005 3:25 pm
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