But more recently, and even more importantly, Scholars for 911Truth co-founder and co-chair, Brigham Young University (BYU) Professor of Physics and 911 researcher Steven E. Jones, PhD., has conducted Physical Analysis of the Molten Metal that was found in the basement levels of the World Trade Center Towers and Building 7.

As reported by Christopher Bollyn and forwarded to me via email:

"[Professor] Jones, a soft spoken physicist who specializes in metal- catalyzed fusion, archaeometry, and solar energy, joined the 911 research effort after being intrigued by the unexplained collapse of the 47-story WTC 7 at 5:25 p.m. on the afternoon of 9/11. Jones scientific interest was sparked after having read the August 2002 report in AMERICAN FREE PRESS that molten iron had been found in the rubble of all three collapsed WTC towers &endash; including WTC 7.

As this reporter discovered in the summer of 2002, "literally molten steel" had been found, more than a month after the collapse, at the bases of the collapsed towers, where their load-bearing central support columns connected to the bedrock. 'Such persistent and intense residual heat, 70 feet below the surface, could explain how these crucial structural supports failed,' I wrote at the time.

Peter Tully, president of Tully Construction of Flushing, New York, told this reporter he had seen pools of 'literally molten steel' at the World Trade Center, where his company had been contracted to remove debris, weeks after the three towers collapsed.

Mark Loizeaux, president of Controlled Demolition, Inc. (CDI) of Phoenix, Maryland, wrote the clean-up plan for the WTC and confirmed the presence of molten metal at the site.

'Yes,' Loizeaux said, 'hot spots of molten steel in the basements.' These incredibly hot areas were found 'at the bottoms of the elevator shafts of the main towers, down seven [basement] levels,' Loizeaux said.

The molten steel was found 'three, four, and five weeks later, when the rubble was being removed,' he said. Loizeaux also confirmed that molten iron had been found in the rubble of WTC 7, the tower owned by Larry Silverstein which was neither hit by an airplane nor severely damaged, but which collapsed mysteriously in the late afternoon of 911.

In 2005, [Professor] Jones began investigating the collapse of WTC 7 and the large amounts of molten iron seen falling from the burning South Tower. These two subjects remain completely unexplained in the official literature on 911.

'The specifics of the fires in WTC 7 and how they caused the building to collapse remain unknown at this time,' the FEMA-sponsored WTC Building Performance Study of 2002 concluded. 'Although the total diesel fuel on the premises contained massive potential energy, the best hypothesis has only a low probability of occurrence,' it said. The way the building collapsed within its own footprint suggested that it was an 'internal collapse,' the report said.

BYU ANALYSIS OF MOLTEN METAL

The question of what caused the 47 load-bearing central columns of the twin towers to fall has been a fundamental question about the unexplained collapses of the WTC towers. The fire-induced collapse scenario does not explain why these crucial internal box columns would have failed.

Last summer, after obtaining pieces of the hardened molten fragments from the WTC, Jones and other scientists at BYU conducted extensive laboratory tests and found that the molten metal was primarily composed of iron &endash; with slight traces of structural steel. From the physical and photographic evidence Jones concluded that Thermite, or a similar aluminothermic process, was used to slice the central core columns and bring down the twin towers. [For photographic evidence of this process, see http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?noframes;read=87932.]

Jones, along with 2 other physicists and a geologist at BYU, conducted Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS), X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) and Electron Microprobe analyses on the samples.

The previously molten metal samples were predominately iron, with very little chromium, Jones said, along with uncommon chemical elements in abundance such as fluorine and manganese from thermate reactions. Thermate is Thermite, which is powdered aluminum and ferrous oxide, with 2 percent sulfer added to the mixture to increase the steel-cutting effectiveness of the reaction.

'The results,' Jones says in a presentation he recently gave at Idaho State University, 'coupled with visual evidence at the scene such as the flowing yellow-hot liquid metal still red after falling about 500 feet, provide compelling evidence that Thermite reaction compounds (aluminothermics) were used, meaning Thermite was deliberately placed in both WTC Towers and WTC 7.' http://worldtradecentertruth.com/volume/200609/DrJonesTalksatISUPhysicsDepartment.pdf

Jones' research papers are online at www.journalof911studies.com.