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The Truth Behind 9-11

S.W. Hain

Copyright 2021 by S.W. Hain

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Table of Contents

Introduction

The conspiracy theories started flying just days after the September 11, 2001terrorist attacks on New York and Washington DC. Over the decade since, several technically elaborate claims have been refined by the 9/11 Truth movement. Do these intricate arguments, including the rapid collapses of the towers, alleged evidence of thermite usage at ground zero, and the collapse of 7 World Trade Center (WTC)a forty-seven-story building damaged by the fall of One WTC into its own footprint at free-fall acceleration disprove the mainstream consensus that the September 11, 2001, attacks were the work of al-Qaeda terrorists using hijacked airplanes? In a word: no. After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington DC.

Over the decade since, several technically elaborate claims have been refined by the 9/11 Truth movement. Do these intricate argumentsincluding the rapid collapses of the towers, alleged evidence of thermite usage at Ground Zero, and the collapse of 7 World Trade Center (WTC)a forty-seven-story building damaged by the fall of One WTC into its own footprint at freefall acceleration disprove the mainstream consensus that the September 11, 2001, attacks were the work of al-Qaeda terrorists using hijacked airplanes? In a word: no.

The Players

Dylan Avery and Jason Bermas, the creators of the low-budget documentary film Loose Change , did much to give the 9/11 Truth movement significant momentum in 2005 and in following years. The film, which has undergone several revisions, has been shown on many television stations but is primarily an Internet and DVD phenomenon. Its basic claims are that Flight 77 could not have accounted for the damage at the Pentagon that the twin tower fires were insufficient to cause their collapse, and that cell phone calls from the hijacked airplanes would have been impossible at the time (Avery 2009).

David Ray Griffin is a theologian whose voluminous writings on 9/11 are frequently cited by other 9/11 theorists. NASA scientist Ryan Mackey has written a very thorough critique of Griffins claims (Mackey 2008).

Once known as Fleischmann and Ponss competitor for cold fusion research in Utah, Steven Jones has written several 9/11 Truth articles. His work with others (including chemist Niels Harrit of Denmark) on detecting nano-thermite in WTC dust is frequently cited as peer-reviewed research that proves inside job claims.

Physics teacher David Chandler has produced several papers and Internet videos contending that high school physics easily shows that the tower collapses could not have happened from gravity alone. He claims this proves that explosives must have been used.

In the past few years, architect Richard Gages group, Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth (AE 911 Truth), has provided truthers with the ability to claim that thousands of engineering and architecture professionals demand a new investigation into the cause of the attacks.

Gage travels the world giving presentations, and his group puts on news conferences and mocks debates several times a year (but most often around September 11the anniversary of the attack) (Thomas 2009; Thomas 2010c).

Hollywood stars who have publicly supported 9/11 Truth claims include Rosie ODonnell, Charlie Sheen, and Ed Asner. Sheen often talks 9/11 with radio host Alex Jones. These celebrities frequently cite (and sometimes mingle) claims made by truther proponents like Griffin and Gage. Former wrestler and Minnesota governor, Jesse Ventura, has done two 9/11 conspiracy shows on his TruTV series, Conspiracy Theory. (See Dave Thomas vs. Jesse Ventura: The Skeptical Smackdown .)

The Claims

As with any well-developed pseudoscience, literally thousands of individual arguments can be advanced in support of the proposition that the United States secretly carried out the September 11 attacks. This report will examine the most enduring and oft cited of these claims: free fall of the towers, reports of thermite and molten steel, and 7 WTCs curious collapse. Some of the factions that have developed (such as the no-planers ) will also be described briefly.

• Claim 1The twin towers collapsed at free-fall accelerations through the path of greatest resistance.
  Perhaps the most bizarre aspect of September 11 was the rapid destruction of both 110-story twin towers. After the collapses began due to cascading structural failures at the airplane impact locations, each tower fell completely in just fifteen to twenty seconds. Mainstream scientific analyses, including years of work by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), generally looked at the cause of each collapse. The intense fires (started by jet fuel and fed by office contents and high winds) eventually caused floor trusses to sag, pulling the perimeter walls inward until they finally snapped. At this instant, the entire upper section of each tower fell the height of one floor, initiating an inevitable, progressive, and utterly catastrophic collapse of each of the structures.
  While the mainstream explanation (dismissed as the official story by 9/11 truthers) usually ends with the initiation of these unstoppable collapses, the 9/11 Truth movements attacks begin there. Gage of AE 911 Truth says on that groups website, Destruction [of the twin towers] proceeds through the path of greatest resistance at nearly free-fall acceleration (Gage 2011; emphasis added). Many 9/11 truther pundits drop the nearly and say simply that the collapses were at free fall. Truthers then insist that free fall acceleration indicates a complete lack of resistance, proving that the structures were demolished with explosives. We are also told that the sheer mass of the towers80,000 tons of structural steelwould simply resist collapse.
  How could the buildings fall so quickly? Its been explained very well in the technical literature by Northwesterns Zdenk Baant PhD and others. (See, for example, Bazant 2008.) Ive developed a simpler physics model of the progressive collapses that agrees quite well with the main points of Bazants more rigorous results (Thomas 2010b). Here are some of my findings:
  • Each floor of the towers contained over 2 million kilograms of mass. The gravitational potential energy of a standing tower with twelve-foot floors extending upward 110 stories can be calculated straightforwardly; it comes to over 420 billion joules of energy or the equivalent of 100 tons of TNT per tower. This energy, which was released completely during the collapses, is more than the energy of some of the smaller nuclear weapons in the US arsenal, such as the W48 (72 tons TNT) (Sublette 2006). This is where the energy required to break columns, pulverize concrete, and expel debris through windows came from. (Truthers often compare such expulsions of air and debris, visible several floors below the collapse fronts to squibs , explosive devices often used in demolitions. However, they are readily explained by pressure changes as the towers acting like a gigantic bicycle pump being compressed, collapsed.)

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