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   From: liberty@once.net   
      
   SIMPLE PHYSICS EXPOSES THE BIG 9/11 LIE -   
   GOVERNMENT BUILDING COLLAPSE   
   EXPLANATION FAILS REALITY CHECK   
      
   On September 11, 2001, the world watched in horror as the World Trade Center   
   (WTC) Twin Towers collapsed, killing thousands of innocent people. Videos of   
   the collapses were replayed ad nauseam on TV for days. About 5 hours after   
   the towers fell, WTC building 7 also collapsed suddenly, completely, and   
   straight down at near free-fall speed. This steel-framed building was not   
   touched by the planes that struck the towers, and had sustained relatively   
   minor debris damage and small fires. Nearby buildings far more heavily   
   damaged remained standing.   
      
   In June 2005, in an apparent response to an article by Morgan Reynolds,   
   former CIA Director and current Secretary of Defense Robert Gates stated,   
   "The American people know what they saw with their own eyes on September 11,   
   2001. To suggest any kind of government conspiracy in the events of that day   
   goes beyond the pale."   
      
   We will prove here, with scientific rigor, that it's the government's tale   
   that's "beyond the pale"!   
      
   Did most of the American people really understand the unprecedented   
   phenomena they had witnessed? Could a lack of knowledge of physics, and the   
   emotional shock of this mass-murderous "terrorist attack" have stymied   
   objective thinking and led to the blind acceptance of authoritarian   
   assertions?   
      
   The government and the media TOLD US what we saw. The government told us   
   that we had witnessed a "gravitational" collapse; what is now referred to as   
   a "pancake collapse". According to the government claims, the plane crashes   
   and subsequent kerosene (like lamp oil - jet fuel is NOT exotic) fires   
   heated the UL-certified structural steel to the point where it was   
   significantly weakened, which is very difficult to believe, never mind   
   repeat in an experiment. Even with massive fires that incinerate everything   
   else, the steel frames of such buildings generally remain standing.   
   According to the "pancake theory", this purported (all physical evidence was   
   quickly and illegally destroyed) weakening supposedly caused part of the   
   tower to collapse downward onto the rest of the tower, which, we've been   
   repeatedly told, somehow resulted in a chain reaction of the lower floors   
   sequentially, one at a time, yielding to the weight falling from above.   
      
   There are some problems with that theory - it does not fit the observed   
   facts:   
      
   * It cannot account for the total failure of the immense vertical steel core   
   columns - as if they were there one moment and gone the next.   
      
   * The collapse times were near free-fall, far too rapid to be due to gravity   
   alone. This article focuses on the latter of these two discrepancies.   
      
   Those that concocted the "pancake theory" made a fatal error - they didn't   
   check their story against the inviolate laws of physics! This is easy to do,   
   even without any physical evidence to examine. We can test that incredible   
   pancake tale using basic high-school physics. Let's do that - use a simple,   
   unassailable, incontrovertible conservation-of-energy analysis to perform a   
   reality check that establishes once and for all that the government, and   
   such government story backers as PBS, Popular Mechanics, and Scientific   
   American have falsified the true nature of the 9/11 disaster.   
      
   How Gravity Acts:   
      
   Sir Isaac Newton noticed that apples fell from trees. Others had also   
   noticed this, but none had ever devised a theory of gravity from the   
   observation. Over the years, mankind has learned that the force of gravity   
   at and near Earth's surface produces an acceleration of known constant   
   magnitude. That doesn't mean we know HOW it works, or WHY, but we have   
   become able to predict its effects with a high degree of precision and   
   certainty - gravity has always had the same, predictable, effect.   
      
   Galileo Galilei used the leaning tower of Pisa to demonstrate that a large   
   ball and a small one (of lesser mass) fell (accelerated downward) at the   
   same rate. Prior to Galileo, people had just assumed that heavier objects   
   fall faster, much the way they had assumed the Earth was flat.   
      
   So while an object of greater mass will exert more force (its weight) upon   
   anything supporting it against gravity's pull, it does not experience any   
   greater acceleration when gravity's pull is not opposed - when it is   
   falling. Earth's gravity at and near the surface of the planet can only   
   accelerate objects downward at one known, constant rate: 32 feet per second   
   for each second of free fall. As Galileo demonstrated centuries ago, heavier   
   objects are not accelerated any quicker than are lighter objects.   
      
   So Earth's gravity produces a downward acceleration of 32 feet per second   
   per second. This means that an object, after falling one second, will be   
   falling at a speed of 32 ft/sec. After the 2nd second, it will be falling at   
   64 ft/sec. After the 3rd second, it will be falling at 96 ft/sec., and so   
   on.   
      
   Further, since gravity's acceleration is constant, and an object is falling   
   at 32 ft/sec after one second has elapsed, we know that it has averaged 16   
   ft/sec for the entire distance. Thus after one second, the object has fallen   
   16 feet.   
      
   Scientists have derived simple free-fall equations that can be used to   
   harness this knowledge mathematically. These equations can be found in any   
   high-school physics book:   
      
   * Falling velocity = acceleration of gravity x time.  (V = G x T)   
      
   And   
      
   * Distance fallen = 1/2 x acceleration of gravity x time squared.  (D = 1/2   
   x G x T x T)   
      
   So if we want to know how far an object has free-fallen after 3 seconds:   
      
   Distance = 1/2 x 32 x 9 = 144 feet   
      
   So after 3 seconds in Earth's gravity, an object will have fallen 144 feet   
   and will be falling at 96 ft/sec.   
      
   Checking Our Work:   
      
   We've just solved a simple physics problem. Now let's check our work, using   
   conservation of energy.   
      
   We know that energy can neither be created nor destroyed - it merely changes   
   form. If we take the potential (in this case chemical, molecular) energy in   
   a barrel of oil and burn it, it changes to heat energy. When we burn   
   gasoline in our car's engine, we get kinetic (motional) energy, plus some   
   heat, as an engine is not 100% efficient. When we use our car's brakes to   
   bleed off some of that kinetic energy (slow down), that energy is converted   
   into heat (the brakes get hot). Explosives convert potential energy   
   [molecular or atomic] to kinetic energy (explosive force) quickly enough to   
   shatter or even pulverize concrete.   
      
   In the case of the free-falling object, the two kinds of energy we are   
   concerned with are kinetic energy and potential energy. Examples of   
      
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