Let's Get Physical: Technical Articles On 9/11 From A&E

If you visit Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth, and look at the list of Technical Articles on their sidebar, you will see some familiar names (I would hope), like David Ray Griffin, Steven E. Jones, Kevin Ryan, and Jim Hoffman. You'll also find links to some articles you may have already read, or at least heard of (I would hope), like "The Destruction of the World Trade Center: Why the Official Account Cannot Be True", and "Revisiting 9/11/2001 -- Applying the Scientific Method" and "Lies about the WTC by NIST and Underwriters Laboratories" and "Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Completely Collapse?"

And you will see names of people and titles of articles you have never heard of (unless I'm way wrong). But if you are serious about such things as physics and engineering and evidence and truth, most of the items on this list will appeal to you (I would think).

In other words, all the following links are well worth clicking ... except the last two! ;-)

• Direct Evidence for Explosions: Flying Projectiles and Widespread Impact Damage
Dr. Crockett Grabbe

• Lies about the WTC by NIST and Underwriters Laboratories
Kevin Ryan - U.L. whistleblower - former Site Manager

• Physical Chemistry of Thermite, Thermate, Iron-Alum-Rich Microspheres at Demise of WTC 1 & 2
Jerry Lobdill 6/15/2007

• The Destruction of WTC 7
Vesa Raiskila

• The NIST WTC Investigation -- How Real Was The Simulation?
Eric Douglas, Architect

• Revisiting 9/11/2001 -- Applying the Scientific Method
Prof. Steven E. Jones, Ph.D., Physics

• DR. BAZANT - NIST's 911 FALL GUY
by Gordon Ross, ME [1], June 4, 2007*

• Open Letter to Purdue President France Córdova
Kevin Ryan, B.S. Chem.

• Jones vs. Robertson: A Physicist and a Structural Engineer Debate the Controlled Demolition of the World Trade Center
Gregg Roberts, Associate Editor, 911Research.com

• Another Structural Engineer Questions WTC Collapses
William Rice, P.E.

• Can Physics Rewrite History?
Chuck Thurston

• Reply to Protec's A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE COLLAPSE OF WTC TOWERS 1, 2 & 7 FROM AN EXPLOSIVES AND CONVENTIONAL DEMOLITION INDUSTRY VIEWPOINT
Jim Hoffman

• NIST's World Trade Center FAQ: A Reply to the National Institute for Standards and Technology's Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
Jim Hoffman

• Building a Better Mirage NIST's 3-Year $20,000,000 Cover-Up of the Crime of the Century
Jim Hoffman

• The Destruction of the World Trade Center: Why the Official Account Cannot Be True
David Ray Griffin

• Another reason the 9/11 fire-mediated collapse theory is wrong
Joseph Smith

• Popular Mechanics' Assault on 9/11 Truth
Jim Hoffman

• Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Completely Collapse?
Dr. Steven E. Jones

• Proof That The Thermal and Gravitational Energy Available Were Insufficient to Melt Steel in the Twin Towers and 7 World Trade Center on 9/11/01
Terry Morrone

• Report on Weidlinger Simulation
Leaked WTC Blueprints contain 3D simulations from the Weidlinger report that contradict the NIST repoort of the Twin Tower's destruction

• Engineering News Record: The World Trade Center

• Bad Science: Keith Seffen And The WTC 'Collapse'
Winter Patriot blog 9/14/07

• UK Engineer: WTC 'Collapses' Were 'A Very Ordinary Thing'
Winter Patriot blog 9/11/07

I was making a joke; that's what I do. But seriously ...

It is indeed an honor.

Greg Palast Apologizes To Steven Jones For Defamatory Remarks

"Investigative journalist" Greg Palast, who called Dr. Steven Jones [photo] "a fruitcake" and "a complete and utter fraud", has apologized to Dr. Jones in an exchange of emails, as published in the Letters department at the Journal of 9/11 Studies.

Palast made the unwarranted remarks on May 10, 2007, during an interview with Lenny Charles of INN.

Jones subsequently challenged Palast to defend his words, and Palast backed down, but not before trying to play an anti-Semitism card. Jones' deft dismissal of this despicable ploy left Palast no option but to retract his defamatory remarks and apologize for them.

But he couldn't go gently or quietly. Instead, he threw out this little gem:

I am quite disturbed that commentary on the September 11, 2001 attack has become so poisoned; and as a result, reasoned discourse is just impossible.

Coming from a man who has done more than his share to poison the commentary while contributing nothing to the research, this statement is entirely laughable, in my estimation.

I commend Dr. Jones for handling the issue in a far better way than I might have.

You can read the exchange of emails here (PDF).

More to the point, please read Dr. Jones' peer-reviewed papers (also PDF):

September, 2006:
Why Indeed Did The WTC Buildings Completely Collapse?

April, 2007:
Revisiting 9/11/2001 -- Applying The Scientific Method

CRUCIAL VIDEO : Dr. Steven Jones at 'Rebuilding America's Senses'

Here's another 9/11 video, but not just another 9/11 video, if you get my drift. It's Dr. Steven Jones, a physics professor formerly of BYU, discussing the results of his recent experiments regarding the destruction of the World Trade Center in a presentation so good, it easily overcomes some unfortunate production.

The audio gets wonky from time to time (but never for very long), and there are many occasions where I wanted to see what was being projected on the screen rather than Dr. Jones standing there speaking. But these are minor quibbles, and the negatives are vastly outweighed by the positive aspects of this video.

When I say the performance is good, I don't mean it's polished or professional -- quite the contrary. It's so down-to-earth, it's so clearly real -- I can't help thinking Steven Jones must have been a great professor.

He does all the wrong things right, in my view. He interrupts himself, he interjects funny little asides, he's got a lovely modest self-deprecating sense of humor, and it's clearly not forced or rehearsed -- the sincerity is just so obvious. He reminds me very strongly of the best teachers I ever knew, and the sort of teacher I stove to become, back in the days when I used slate to grind chalk into powder for my daily bread.

There's no flash here, no glitz; it's all straight from the heart. But it's not all heart; there's a very sharp mind at work here, too! The combination is fabulous, and you can see it from the opening moments of this video, where they're fumbling with the microphone and Steven Jones says "You might want to turn this up. I'm not Alex!"

You can hear Alex Jones laugh, as well as everyone else in the room. It's just one of many funny moments; I also loved his remark about his critics: "They call themselves debunkers!"

But this is not about humor, because what's really remarkable here is the content. Steven Jones is a real scientist; a bright and very curious man who knows how to design experiments that either confirm or refute particular hypotheses. He understands that if you want to learn, "it's helpful to do experiments."

And in this video he presents the results of a couple of his recent experiments -- or more accurately, a couple of series of experiments.

In the first series, he was trying to figure out what the orange molten metal was that was seen flowing out of the towers just before they collapsed. The official narrative says it was molten aluminum. Dr. Jones wondered if it would be possible to heat aluminum so hot that it would glow orange.

This is a perfect illustration of the scientific method at work. Dr. Jones was thinking, "If we can make aluminum glow orange then the official story is tenable on this point; otherwise not." And it was a well-designed experiment, because no matter what happened, he was guaranteed to learn something.

That's the whole point. You go in with an open mind, with all possibilities on the table, so to speak, and then you rule various possibilities either in or out, depending on what happens when you run the experiments. This is the way science works. Or at least this is the way science is supposed to work.

The second series of experiments was a bit more technical and therefore harder to explain, but it involved the small heavy metal spheres that were found in the dust that came from the towers. Dr. Jones devised a simple, elegant way to separate the metal from the rest of the dust, and he took some of that metal to be analyzed. He was trying to answer questions like: "What is this metal? Is it structural steel? Is it aluminum? Is it something else? Can we make something similar in the lab? Can we make something identical?"

And again he designed a series of very simple experiments to answer the questions. I'm not gonna give you all the answers; for that you'll have to watch the video. But as I've been saying, I think it will be time well spent.

So, without further ado, here's Dr. Steven Jones, speaking in April of this year, from the "Rebuilding America's Senses" conference held at the University of Texas at Austin:

Steven Jones Reaches Agreement With BYU

Professor Steven Jones and Brigham Young University have reached an agreement under which Jones will be free to do research of his own choosing, and to continue to speak the truth about the 9/11 attacks. And all it's going to cost him is his job.

PROVO — Professor Steven Jones and Brigham Young University finalized a retirement package Friday, six weeks after the school placed the physicist on paid leave to review his statements and research about the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center.

"I am electing to retire so that I can spend more time speaking and conducting research of my own choosing," Jones said in a statement released by the university. "I appreciate the wonderful opportunity I have had to teach and serve and do research at BYU for more than 21 years."

Jones and BYU worked on the package for weeks, Jones said in an interview with the Deseret Morning News. The university abandoned its review of his 9/11-related work Friday after the agreement was reached, university spokeswoman Carri Jenkins said.

Jones' retirement is effective Jan. 1. He hasn't decided what he'll do next, though he has received a feeler from another school and intends to keep talking about the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Please read the rest of this piece from the Deseret News.

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