Remembering the Truth of 9/11

[Tara Carreon]

EXPLOSIVE Evidence Cont'd.

World Trade Center -- Twin Towers

3: Constant Acceleration

[Richard Gage, AIA] NIST -- the National Institute of Standards and Technology -- acknowledges that the towers came down at essentially freefall acceleration. What are the implications of that admission?

[Shyam Sunder, NIST WTC Lead Investigator] The measurements have indicated that the Tower 1 collapsed in about 11 seconds, and Tower 2 collapsed in about 9 seconds. And the argument goes, that this is essentially the rate at which freefall would happen.

[Michael Donly, P.E., Structural Engineer] I had a friend that asked me if it was possible for the Twin Towers to achieve near freefall speed when they collapsed.

[Alfred Lopez, P.E., Structural Engineer] The Twin Towers could not have come straight down through the thousands of tons of structural steel, through the greatest resistance, the resistance of 80,000 tons of structural steel, at the speed of practically freefall. That would just not happen.

[Daniel Barnum, FAIA, High-Rise Architect] There are columns of steel around the exterior of the building and within the core, all of which are there to prevent the thing from falling down. And so even if something falls on it, it's not going to immediately just go, "Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop," like that, floor by floor. If it's going to collapse, it's going to have to take some time to weaken the structure below it.

[David Chandler, M.S., B.S. Physics, M.A. Education, M.S. Mathematics] This structure was capable of holding 3-5 times the weight, and here it is falling through it, with a resistance of only 1/3 of its weight. Roughly 90% of the resistance has been removed. And what is happening is the top section is not crushing down the lower section like a pile driver -- which is the picture that NIST basically is painting -- it's actually falling into materials that have already been pulverized, this offering very little resistance. It's just coming down through pre-pulverized material. One of the fundamental laws of nature is the conservation of energy.

[Steven Dusterwald, P.E., Structural Engineer] There was no time for this elastic deformation and plastic deformation which would have absorbed energy and decreased the descent to less than freefall speed. As energy is drained away from the system to deform those members, it would slow down the descending mass, and cause a descent at less than freefall speed.

[Roland Angle, P.E., Civil Engineer] This is high school physics. And our whole society is being led to believe that these fundamental laws of physics -- hard science -- don't apply anymore. I think that should really frighten all of us.

[Frank Cullinan, P.E., Civil Engineer] Structural connections not only had to fail nearly simultaneously, but in sequential order.

[Jody Gibbs, licensed for general building, heavy construction and architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Yale Graduate School of Art & Architecture, Adjunct Faculty at MIT Graduate School of Architecture] The buildings fall at a speed which can only occur if the structure has been removed -- the vertical structure.

[David Chandler, M.S., B.S. Physics, M.A. Education, M.S. Mathematics] This block accelerates straight down, or it is picking up speed downward continually. It doesn't slow down. It just continues to gain speed.

[Robert E. McCoy, High-Rise Architect] From what I understand, the buildings actually accelerated as they came down, meaning they were not getting resistance from these massive columns in the center of the core of this building. The core of this building was very heavy. They are huge columns -- huge!

[Leslie Young, High-Rise Architect] I could not see how those massive, very thick columns, could just snap like that. I would have expected most of them to stay intact with the floor collapsing around them.

[Alfred Lopez, P.E., Structural Engineer] I'm Alfred Lopez. I'm a registered professional structural engineer in the State of Michigan, and have been in private practice for 40 years with Lopez Engineering. I've worked on several high-rise projects, with office buildings above park index, and high-rise apartment buildings here in the Detroit area. I've done numerous investigations of failures of buildings because of fire and wind damage. I was shocked at how the buildings collapsed. I would have expected that they would have come down much slower, that they would have tipped over. The whole thing did not make sense. And ever since then, I've had a hard time believing that the fires did drop those buildings.

[Leslie Young, High-Rise Architect] I thought that given the way the planes hit the building, one side would have given away first, and it would have just fallen off or fallen over at a steep angle. But the way the whole thing just gave way at once, and started to plummet down without slowing down as it went down, again, just like the controlled demolition I witnessed personally.

[William Rice, P.E., Civil Engineer/Professor (Ret.)] The area below the damage zone where the planes flew in, and where the fire was, that area below that, the 80 or 90 stories, 80,000 tons of structural steel, was not damaged in any way. Yet you stood there and watched it destroy itself, wiping out floor by floor, all 287 structural columns, as if they didn't exist under the damage zone.

[Tara Carreon]

EXPLOSIVE Evidence Cont'd.

World Trade Center -- Twin Towers

4: Eyewitness Reports of Explosions

[Richard Gage, AIA] According to the first responders' oral histories, which were reported in the New York Times, over 100 first responders reported sounds of explosions and flashes of light at the onset of the destruction of both towers. These were not discussed in the NIST report. What did these eyewitnesses actually see and hear?

[Jody Gibbs, licensed for general building, heavy construction and architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Yale Graduate School of Art & Architecture, Adjunct Faculty at MIT Graduate School of Architecture] We have eyewitness testimony of firemen, policemen, news reporters, and occupants of the building, to explosions. An enormous number of eyewitness testimonies.

[Tara Carreon]

EXPLOSIVE Evidence Cont'd.

World Trade Center -- Twin Towers

5: Direct Evidence of Explosions

[Richard Gage, AIA] FEMA documents a 1,200 foot diameter debris field around each tower. Videos show multi-ton steel sections of hundreds of individual steel pieces ejecting out of the towers at 60 mph for a distance of 600 feet. They also show clouds of debris, pulverized in mid-air, and isolated explosive ejections as many as 60 stories below the so-called "crush zone." Videos also show the near total destruction of both towers. What does all this tell us about the forces and energies involved in the destruction?

[Michael Donly, P.E., Sructural Engineer] The spread of debris in a large radius around each tower -- what we see is an outward explosion of material beyond the perimeters of each footprint. And this is not expected. And it's not congruent with the reports of our government.

[Ronald Brookman, S.E., Structural Engineer] Debris that was shooting out for hundreds of feet in all directions at 70 mph, leaving the 80th floor of the North Tower, and making a fairly level trajectory -- that, to me, is fairly alarming.

[Jody Gibbs, licensed for general building, heavy construction and architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Yale Graduate School of Art & Architecture, Adjunct Faculty at MIT Graduate School of Architecture] Large, multi-ton beams were hurled hundreds of yards laterally. Gravity works vertically, not laterally.

[David Chandler, M.S., B.S. Physics, M.A. Education, M.S. Mathematics] The number I got was 78 mph. So something's happening to throw these things horizontally at those kinds of speeds. And here it is trailing white smoke the whole time. It really is indicative of some kind of explosion.

[Steve Luce, Former U.S. Army Combat Engineer, Explosive Demolition of Structures] The individual explosions that I noticed 20 and 30 and 40 stories below the collapsing structure, those are what we demolition guys call "squibs." And that's another characteristic that seems to be evidence.

[David Chandler, M.S., B.S. Physics, M.A. Education, M.S. Mathematics] Well, in the case of the South Tower, you can see these jets of black smoke being ejected from many locations, on many different floors above the level of the impact. There's a whole bunch of these squibs or puffs that are coming out the side of the building. And naysayers tend to say, "Well, that's just air being blown out the windows because you've got like an accordion effect; it's going to be compressed." Well, it's going on at a lot of different levels at the same time -- that's one thing. And if you're compressing it out here, if you're blowing out the windows down here, how are you getting the air pressure? I mean, it really doesn't work to say it's just air pressure. Some of these are coming out faster than 100 mph.

[Leslie Young, High-Rise Architect] The impact of the floors pancaking upon themselves would create gushes of air out the side, but not the kind of explosive force that we saw them throw I-beams across the street into the windows of other buildings.

[Steve Luce, Former U.S. Army Combat Engineer, Explosive Demolition of Structures] The ejection of the materials out of the building, the manner in which it fell, the speed at which it fell, exhibited all the signs of demolitions, and the completeness of the destruction down to their individual elements.

[Leslie Young, High-Rise Architect] When the South Tower was destroyed, first it looked like it was going to land in the street, or take a building out next to it. And then, all of a sudden, it disappears in this huge cloud of smoke, which didn't make sense at the time.

[Robert E. McCoy, High-Rise Architect] How can those steel columns, the massive steel columns that they are, supporting the weight of that building, virtually disappear? Why aren't they poking up straight out of that rubble at the bottom of the building?

[Steve Barasch, High-Rise Architect] As an architect, I would expect to see larger portions of the building floors, the steel decking, the concrete topping, much larger remnants of what the structural components of this building was. There were just small fragments of strewn-steel components. There should have been much larger pieces for examination on the ground. After all, there were 110 floors in each building, and each floor plate was over an acre in size.

[Leslie Young, High-Rise Architect] The fact that it was all reduced to rubble and powder just did not make sense at all.

[Jody Gibbs, licensed for general building, heavy construction and architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Yale Graduate School of Art & Architecture, Adjunct Faculty at MIT Graduate School of Architecture] We have no explanation of how the concrete was pulverized. It takes an enormous amount of energy, way beyond what we have in aviation fuel.

[Richard Humenn, P.E., Original WTC Chief Electrical Design Engineer] There were two substations on the 108th floor, the 75th floor, and the 41st floor and the 7th floor. At those eight locations, there were four transformers in each substation that weighed over 30,000 pounds. In the substations on the mechanical floors in each tower -- the transformers would not explode on their own. They were air-cooled dry-type transformers. And yet after the collapse, there was, from what was reported, there's no evidence of them being found at the bottom of the towers. I wonder why. It was a shame that after the collapse, that a forensic engineering unit didn't go into the debris and try to find at that time why the towers had collapsed. I'm sure there was other evidence that could have given a better indication at the time that there was something else wrong.

[Tara Carreon]

EXPLOSIVE Evidence Cont'd.

World Trade Center -- Twin Towers

6: Melted Steel Beams and Molten Iron

[Richard Gage, AIA] In its report on World Trade Center Seven, which came out in May, 2002, FEMA documents in Appendix C that steel that has been melted and even partially evaporated, resembling Swiss cheese. What are we to make of this?

[Jeffrey Farrer, Ph.D., Materials Science Engineer/M.S. Physics] My name is Jeff Farrer. I have a Ph.D. in materials science engineering from the University of Minnesota. I have a B.A. in physics from Brigham Young University. I've worked with solid state reactions. I've worked characterizing materials: semi-conductor materials, and thin films. I currently do a lot of work with nano-particles, as well as solid state reactions. So Jonathan Barnett's study, which I thought was very well done, and quite extensive, is all documented by FEMA in Appendix C, in their BPAT report. That was May, 2002. Unfortunately, it was never used in the NIST report.

[Jason Cheshire, B.S.Ch.E., Chemical Engineer/Metallurgist] My name is Jason Cheshire, and I'm a licensed professional engineer in the province of Ontario, in Canada. And I have been working in the field of hydrometallurgy for the past 10 years for a major company here in Canada. And I'd like to know why NIST excluded the document from FEMA, in Appendix C, that documented the evidence of melting steel. Why is this not included? Why is this forensic evidence not being included in the report?

[John Gross, Lead Engineer of the NIST Report] First of all, let's go back to your basic premise that there was a pool of molten steel. I know of absolutely nobody, and no eyewitness who has said so, and nobody who has produced it.

But witnesses testify otherwise ...

[Tara Carreon]

EXPLOSIVE Evidence Cont'd.

World Trade Center -- Twin Towers

7: Iron Microspheres Confirm Unexplained Extreme Temperatures

[Richard Gage, AIA] Another question that may haunt the new freedom tower, according to the USGS, they found as much as 6% of the World Trade Center dust consisted of tiny, previously molten iron spheres. What does this tell us about the temperatures generated in the Towers' destruction?

[Adam Parrott, B.S.Ch.E, Chemical Engineering] My name is Adam Parrott, and I have a bachelors degree in chemical engineering from Queens University. I've been working for an environmental consulting firm for a number of years. When the USGS collected samples of the World Trade Center dust, they found the iron microspheres, and so far, the USGS does not have a valid explanation for the presence of these iron microspheres.

[Mark Basile, B.S.Ch.E., Chemical Engineer] But I have independently seen thermitic activity within two separate, independent samples of World Trade Center dust.

[Jerry Lobdill, B.S.Ch.E., Physicist/Chemical Engineer] I'm Jerry Lobdill. I'm a retired physicist, and chemical engineer. I have a B.S. in chemical engineering from Texas Tech, and I have extensive coursework in mathematics and physics from the University of Texas at Austin. I've had broad experience in analysis and applied research. I have a 30-year professional history, spanning physics, chemical engineering, statistical analysis and modeling, and operations research. So what do the microspheres contain? Iron is the main element. And then it has smaller portions of aluminum, sulfur, a trace of manganese, and a trace of potassium. Most of them are less than 1/10th of an inch in diameter. They are spherical. And they are found in all the dust blown out of the buildings during collapse, no matter where in Manhattan that dust is picked up.

[Kathy McGrade, B.S., Metallurgical Engineer] You must have had a much hotter heat source for you to get 2,700 degrees fahrenheit in order to melt the steel, melt the iron, to get these molten iron spheres. Your heat source must be something like a chemical reaction, an exothermic chemical reaction that reacts -- in the case of thermite -- reacts at 4,500 degrees fahrenheit.

[Mark Basile, B.S.Ch.E., Chemical Engineer] My contention based on finding thermite residue in the dust is that it happened before; it didn't happen after in the fires that ensued in the rubble pile afterwards. All the characteristics of the microspheres, along with what I see in the attack of the beams that were actually found, tell me that thermite was involved in melting those steel beams.

[Tara Carreon]

[Tara Carreon]

EXPLOSIVE Evidence Cont'd

World Trade Center -- Twin Towers

8: High-Tech Incendiaries in the WTC Dust

[Richard Gage, AIA] Out of the ashes of the World Trade Center devastation rises the Freedom Tower, whose foundation, however, is shrouded in question. For example, in the World Trade Center dust, an international team of scientists found an advanced form of highly energetic, nano-thermite composites. What is it, and where does it come from?

[Niels Harrit, Ph.D. Chemistry, Associate Professor Emeritus, University of Copenhagen] My name is Niels Harrit. I have a masters and a Ph.D. in chemistry. And I'm associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, and I have been so for almost 40 years. I have published close to 60 peer-reviewed papers in the best journals. And currently, I'm involved with research, X-ray time resolved spectroscopy, on time scales of 1 millionth of 1 millionth of a second. In the dust, we found what we characterize as unreacted thermitic material in the shape of some very tiny, red-grey chips which have different properties, most importantly is they're still reacting, some of them. And in the reaction they produce molten iron, which is the prime indication of a thermitic reaction. And such a reaction can be used to destroy steel structures. What we have found is the modern version of thermite, which we call nano-thermite, which is produced in a different way. It is not just two powders being mixed. The material is actually built from the atom-scale up. We call it the bottom up procedure, which is what you do in nano-technology. This has two consequences for the nano-thermite which separates it, distinguishes it from the classical thermite. First, the ingredients are much smaller, which means they are reacting faster and they are more easily ignited.

[Steven Jones, Ph.D., Physics Professor Emeritus, Brigham Young University] The primary elements in the red material are aluminum, iron oxide, as well as silicon and carbon. The iron oxide appears in faceted grains approximately 100 nanometers across. The aluminum appears in thin platelets about 40 nanometers thick. It is the small size of the particles involved in this material that allow us to characterize it as nano-thermite. In older thermite, the particle size is much larger, and hence ordinary thermite isn't incendiary. where, as the particle size becomes smaller and smaller, it can become explosive: super-thermite it's sometimes called. This red material contains also a significant amount of carbon. And the formulation of nano-thermite as described by National Laboratory publications, also implies the presence of carbon very typically. The organic is used with nanothermite in order to produce gas, that is, very high pressure gas that makes the nanothermite an explosive. We do have descriptions from the Livermore National Laboratory, in particular, of how they fabricated this material. To fabricate it is not so easy. This is discussed in our paper in The Open Chemical Physics Journal published in April, 2009.

[Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe, by Niels H. Harrit, Jeffrey Farrer, Steven E. Jones, Kevin R. Ryan, Frank M. Legge, Daniel Farnsworth, Gregg Roberts, James R. Gourley and Bradley R. Larsen]

So far, none of these papers have been refuted in the scientific literature. So that means they are unchallenged in the scientific sense. They stand as an indictment, really, of the official story of 9/11.

[Mark Basile, B.S.Ch.E., Chemical Engineer] One of the things I'd like to stress about these chips is that they really shouldn't be there. They are not a natural formed aglomeration of aluminum from the aircraft, or materials that were in the building and iron oxide that got knocked off. It isn't just a haphazard bringing together of iron oxide and aluminum, which is the basic components of thermite. This is a material that is made up of nano-sized particles that are all very uniform, very symmetrical.

[Adam Parrott, B.S.Ch.E., Chemical Engineering] The formulation of the grey chips is nano-sized. This cannot be paint. Paint does not have these exotic properties. That's impossible.

[Niels Harrit, Ph.D. Chemistry, Associate Professor Emeritus, University of Copenhagen] We do not know which role is played by the red-grey chips that we found in the dust. But we know -- and this was already totally clear before we started investigating the dust -- both explosives and incendiaries were used in the controlled demolition of the World Trade Center. This is quite obvious because of other observations: the molten iron and other findings in the dust.

[Jason Cheshire, B.S.Ch.E., Chemical Engineer/Metallurgist] This is material that is of military use that really shouldn't be there.

[Tara Carreon]

[Tara Carreon]

Take sulfur for example. If a chemist found himself in conversation with an alchemist about sulfur, he would make a big mistake to think they were talking about the same thing. An alchemist has an entirely different world view than a chemist. Alchemy was invented specifically to pervert the progress of chemistry and science in general. The scientific discoveries of Columbus, Copernicus, and Galileo during the time of the Renaissance threatened the power of the medieval Church, so it invented alchemy to promote an esoteric Christianity under the guise of science. Alchemy is about pretending to be science when it isn't, like the Intelligent Design "science" of today. The Church didn't want people to experience reality according to their senses, but according to religion. They wanted to keep authority over the people in a time when individuality was getting out of control.

So when I read James Glanz and Eric Lipton's February 2, 2002, New York Times article saying that the presence of sulfur at the trade towers was "the deepest mystery," it made me wonder what kind of mystery they were talking about. The "mysteries" mystery? But I got a clue when I read the article by the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, which is cited by these authors, called "The Deep Mystery of Melted Steel." In it, "Materials science professor" Ronald Biederman says:

[Tara Carreon]