WHERE could the immense ENERGY needed to destroy the WTC on 9/11 AND maintain hot spots in the ground for 99 days have come from? Many observers have judged NO WAY could gravity & ANY chemical source (e.g., nanothermite) have provided sufficient ENERGY. So WHERE?
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On day of 9/11, #MSM - as if reading from some "official" script - propagandized the idea that it was practically INEVITABLE that fuel-filled jetliners flying into the Twin Towers combined w/force of gravity would cause the utter destruction of the WTC
2/ https://twitter.com/drbairdonline/status/1180929101294526465

Despite the shock & awe of 9/11, some doubters like Peter Meyer, started questioning the "official" story of the inevitable "collapse" of the Twin Towers almost immediately, suggesting it had to be some form of "controlled demolition."
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https://www.serendipity.li/wtc_0913.html 

Feb 2002 AFP reporter Christopher Bollyn first to seriously investigate where ENERGY came from to produce immense clouds of dust; disintegrate 425,000 cu yds concrete; burning rubble for more than 3 mos despite being constantly sprayed w/water & "vaporize" so many of the dead
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Bollyn reported former E German physicist told him "a directed-energy weapon using "deep infrared" radiation" could have destroyed WTC. First developed in USSR but since 1995 US & Israel have jointly developed a mobile Tactical High-Energy Laser (THEL)
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https://www.serendipity.li/wot/bollyn1.htm 

Aug 2002 AFP reporter Christopher Bollyn further explored where the ENERGY came from reporting that two seismic "spikes" on 9/11 "indicate huge bursts of energy shook the ground beneath the WTC's twin towers — just as the buildings began to collapse"
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https://www.serendipity.li/wot/bollyn2.htm 

Bollyn also suggests that these underground explosions could be the so-far unexplained "energy source" for the "pools of "molten steel" found at the base of the collapsed twin towers weeks after the collapse"
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Mar 2003 Jim Hoffman put out flyers claiming evidence of max seismic mvmt & rpts of explosions at beginning of collapse, cellphone outages, deep fires lasting mos & melted core columns all "consistent with the detonation of small THERMONUCLEAR devices"
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http://911research.wtc7.net/materials/early/flyer2/flyerd.htm

Jun 2003 Jim Hoffman using "basic physics" calculated ENERGY required simply to produce expansion of the dust clouds following destruction of Twin Towers over 100x greater than gravitational energy available
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https://web.archive.org/web/20031120160638/http://www.justiceforwoody.org/re911/papers/volumev1.html

Oct 2003 Jim Hoffman still supported idea of "thermonuclear devices in the basements" citing earlier evidence, also afterglow at end of collapse. Absence of radiation rpts at GZ did not rule out but he didn't know if fissionless fusion bombs existed.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20031005174521/http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/analysis/theories/basementbomb.html

Oct 2003 Jim Hoffman also did NOT believe basement bombs taking out the core structures could explain "observed methodical destruction starting from the crash zones and proceeding down the towers" which he said only required high explosives
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https://web.archive.org/web/20031005180622/http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/analysis/theories/explosives.html

Oct 2003 Hoffman also considered "directed energy weapons" & "radiant energy projectiles" but "impossible to work out their details" for such "secret weapons technologies" although not implausible b/c US had
"large highly secret black-budget projects"
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https://web.archive.org/web/20040213113620/http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/analysis/theories/index.html

Jan 2004 Jim Hoffman on Guns & Butter calls DEWs his "working theory", "physically possible" & better explains "number of more subtle features" e.g. lack of overpressures in the first 2 sec, fineness of pulverization, persistence of North Tower spire
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https://911research.wtc7.net/interviews/radio/youreyesdontlie/index.html

Hoffman acknowledges not really certain "where the energy came from" but imagines some kind of maser device trucked into the deep sub-basement of the towers "pumped by some source of energy" ~1.5 gigawatt-hours delivered in ~15 sec would take a foot-thick copper cable
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In the first 4+ years of the #911Truth movement, as most truthers settled into arguing over some form of "controlled demolition," there wasn't much concern with trying to work out an ENERGY BALANCE (inputs = outputs) for WTC on 9/11
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The person who would do more to shake up this #911Truth complacency was the anonymous Finnish Military Expert whose work became available in English (as well as Finnish) http://www.saunalahti.fi  by at least Dec 2005
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https://web.archive.org/web/20051229155829/http://www.saunalahti.fi/wtc2001/military.htm

The "Finnish Military Expert" (FME) believed WTC was destroyed by ~10,000 cutting charges in both WTC1 & WTC2 & 4,000 in WTC7 to cut outer steel pillars with at least one small thermonuclear bomb [“mini hydrogen bomb”] in all three bldgs
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https://web.archive.org/web/20110218081523/http://www.saunalahti.fi/wtc2001/soldier1.htm

FME: “The thermonuclear bomb used [developed in 1980s] was a 'pure' hydrogen bomb, so no uranium or plutonium at all. The basic nuclear reaction is Deuterium + Tritium > Alpha + n." With no fission device, the H bomb can be "smaller than a pineapple" w/wide range of yields
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FME: "The amt of fusion-able materials control the yield (effect) & the shape of the charge as well as the initiation arrangements [powerful beam array or antimatter] impress the direction of the explosion wave" "in order not to level the adjacent blocks of high-rise bldngs"
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FME's "Observations Suggesting the Use of Small H Bombs":
1) Concrete pulverized into fine dust
2) Very energetic – hot – dust after explosions
3) Brown shades in air
4) Superheated steel objects disintegrating into vapor, molten steel in elevator shafts, fires until Dec 19
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5) High levels of tritium at WTC but not elsewhere in NYC
6) EMP-type phenomenon blacked out cel phones when WTC2 started to "collapse" & "strange afterglow" in late phase of "collapse"
7) Wave of pressure at base of towers
8) Melted core columns
9) Ejected steel columns
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FME: Photo shows explosion of small H bomb placed in basement & directed to tower core reaching roof of tower, over 10 million degrees temp sublimizing all water in concrete exploding extremely quickly 1000-fold volume totally pulverizing concrete, vaporizing humans & objects
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FME says 104-kT Storax Sedan explosion (left) was "in theory 100x stronger" than each mini H bomb that destroyed Twin Towers (thus nominally 1 kT nuke) "but in practice the difference is only 4x due to the capability of direction of the small H bomb" (thus effectively 25 kT)
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FME added a lot of details to his mini H bomb theory in an online "debate" w/Antti Partanen in spring 2006 where claims this directed "1-kiloton H-device" was "cutting edge around 1990, NOT 2001" citing work of Gsponer on 4th-generation nuclear weapons
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https://web.archive.org/web/20130301012415/http://www.11syyskuu.net/H-device.htm

FME describes the mechanisms behind this picture some 6 secs after neutron volley & 4+ secs after full heat wave & blast wave caused by the fireball effect has hit the outer walls of the tower and broke through it
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FME explains lack of rpts of radioactivity b/c mini-H bomb 1/100 radiation of plutonium bomb & different type (alpha & tritium particles) requires very expensive instruments & water spraying helps evaporate, biggest problem neutron absorption why steel shipped off so quickly
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Finnish Military Expert's analysis received a generally positive reception as it became known in US & elsewhere. At PhysOrgForum, Advanced Member "MMC" quite ably defended FME's analysis agst all challengers in Jan-Feb 2006 discussion w/2040 posts!
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https://web.archive.org/web/20080409103637/http://www.physforum.com/index.php?showtopic=4418

May 2006 Peter Meyer, in "Reply to a 9/11 Skeptic" who doubted that so many people who knew the score could have kept silent, uses FME's mini-H bomb argument that only 30 men were needed to install cutting charges & all these could have been eliminated
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https://www.serendipity.li/wot/reply911a.htm

FME's most significant impact was on Rick Siegel & David Schaufele (aka Dave Shaw) who in Sep 2005 had released documentary "911 Eyewitness" featuring Siegel's unique footage of events of WTC on 9/11 from across Hudson River on Hoboken Pier
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Nov 2005 Siegel & Shaw (S&S) launched online 911 Eyewitness News site to serve in part as discussion forum for “the latest developments in solid evidence” on 9/11. Apr 2006 new member "freedomfighter" starts posting on Finnish Military Expert.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20061029215003/http://www.911eyewitness.com/truth/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=55

"freedomfighter" also brought up "MMC" discussion at PhysOrgForum and Rick Siegel was so intrigued that S&S decided to make a totally new doc "911 Eyewitness Hoboken" incorporating FME's theory released May 2006
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Juxtaposing images of Storax Sedan (erroneously called H-bomb) & WTC, narrator says "Clearly, a very powerful energy source was required. Our darkest suspicions have been confirmed by a military expert in Finland.”
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Curiously in Apr 2006 "freedomfighter" also posted online article that had just come out on work of BYU physicist Steven Jones who now believed "an incendiary substance called thermite, bolstered by sulfur" caused WTC structural steel to fail & bldgs to collapse on 9/11
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At first Siegel was ecstatic to learn of Jones' work - even going so far as to proclaim "100% Proof WMD and Thermite took down the Towers" - undoubtedly thinking that here was solid proof of the "cutting charges" that the Finnish Military Expert had theorized
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July 2006 David Shaw wrote "open letter" to Prof Jones
seeking "expert comments" on "the hypothesis that directed energy fusion devices" were used at WTC b/c thermate couldn't begin to explain expanded 23-point list of fusion evidence that FME had provided Shaw
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Jones promptly responded "I have studied nuclear fusion my entire career in Physics...There was NO radioactivity above background in solidified molten metal nor in WTC dust...Thus, with a VERY high degree of confidence, we can rule out the use of fusion weaponry in the WTC."
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Jones attached to his email a link to a copy of his results "Answer to Objections and Questions" (July 18, 2006), originally posted on BYU Physics website but since removed & reposted at Journal of 9/11 Studies website
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http://www.journalof911studies.com/articles/JonesAnswersQuestionsWorldTradeCenter.pdf

Shaw, after consulting FME, responded to Jones asking whether metal/dust samples given him 4 years after 9/11 could be trusted & considered conclusive proof fusion didn't occur + addtl 11 questions as well as to comment on why EACH of 23 points invalid. Jones never responded.
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Prof Jones, despite his frequent claims to follow "the scientific method," had no intention of engaging Finnish Military Expert to refine "fusion hypothesis" or come up w/"alternative hypothesis" to explain FME's 23 pieces of evidence & answer FME's follow-up questions
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After having analyzed the way Prof Jones propagandized "explosive nanothermite," I actually think this UNSCIENTIFIC approach very typical of him & thus would suspect a priori ANY Jones claim abt WTC samples, radioactivity, cold fusion or ANYTHING!
40/ https://twitter.com/drbairdonline/status/1226187711611985920

Despite his professed belief in “Law of Conservation of Energy,” Prof Jones is much more interested in dismissing any nuclear 9/11 hypothesis (that at least has chance of explaining huge 9/11 energy input) than coming up w/alt hypothesis that actually DID conserve energy.
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I would furthermore be very suspicious whether Prof Jones was brought into #911Truth community back in Sep 2005 as an avuncular #ColdFusionGatekeeper (who got a LOT of MSM attention!) to be in a position to dismiss out of hand any nuclear 9/11 hypothesis, most esp that of FME
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It is unclear exactly when FME’s writings went public but we know his writings were first posted on a Finnish-language site http://www.11syyskuu.org  & an English translation was written in spring 2005 so it seems at very least Finnish version online sometime before spring 2005
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There seems to have been a coordinated effort among staunch Jones followers like Jim Hoffman (left) & Christopher Bollyn (right) to distance themselves from their earlier alternative hypotheses that actually had addressed in some way the 9/11 ENERGY balance problem
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Bollyn wrote Nov 2009 he had been duped by Mossad agent Frau Marek pretending to be former E German physicist when he wrote in Feb 2002 about DEW & THEL, ideas some people still promote in spite of "published scientific evidence of super-thermite found by Dr. Steven E. Jones"
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