since many cavers have a piercing
interest in explosives, thought this would be appropriate
This is a translation of an
interview done on Danish TV on April 6th with Dr. Niels
Harrit, a research chemist (see reference to published
article at end) who has found unarguable proof of
nano-thermite in huge quantities from the dust of the 9/11 rubble.
When will we investigate what really happened? If you've read
alot of the information put together, you may remember that the
security firm for the Twin Towers was changed just before Sept. 11th,
and I seem to remember that major "work" which necessitated
offices being shut down on alternating days for 10 days before the
planes hit. Why is there so much resistance to really looking at
what happened? S.
The first author on this recent
paper,[1] Niels H. Harrit, Associate Professor at the Department of
Chemistry at the University of Copenhagen and expert in
nano-chemistry, has given the below interview at approximately 10:30
p.m. April 6, 2009 on TV 2 News in Denmark ( http://news.tv2.dk
), one of the two most respected Danish television
channels:
"A danish scientist Niels
Harrit, on nano-thermite in the WTC dust ( english subtitles ),"
Enderlein79, April 10, 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_tf25lx_3o
The following is an
English-translation transcript of the aforementioned
interview:
Interviewer: International
researchers have found traces of explosives among the World Trade
Center rubble. A new scientific article concludes that impacts from
the two hijacked aircraft did not cause the collapses in
2001.
We turn our attention to 9/11: the
major attack in New York. Apparently the two airplane impacts did not
cause the towers to collapse, according to a newly published
scientific article. Researchers found nano-thermite explosive in the
rubble, that cannot have come from the planes. They believe several
tonnes of explosives were placed in the buildings in
advance.
Niels Harrit, you and eight other
researchers conclude in this article, that it was nano-thermite that
caused these buildings to collapse. What is nano-thermite?
Niels Harrit: We found
nano-thermite in the rubble. We are not saying only nano-thermite was
used. Thermite itself dates back to 1893. It is a mixture of aluminum
and rust-powder, which react to create intense heat. The reaction
produces iron, heated to 2500 °C. This can be used to do welding. It
can also be used to melt other iron. Nanotechnology makes things
smaller. So in nano-thermite, this powder from 1893 is reduced to tiny
particles, perfectly mixed. When these react, the intense heat
develops much more quickly. Nano-thermite can be mixed with additives
to give off intense heat, or serve as a very effective explosive. It
contains more energy than dynamite, and can be used as rocket
fuel.
Interviewer: I Googled
nano-thermite, and not much has been written about it. Is it a widely
known scientific substance? Or is it so new that other scientists are
hardly aware of it?
Harrit: It is a collective
name for substances with high levels of energy. If civilian
researchers (like myself) are not familiar with it, it is probably
because they do not do much work with explosives. As for military
scientists, you would have to ask them. I do not know how familiar
they are with nanotechnology.
Interviewer: So you found
this substance in the WTC, why do you think it caused the
collapses?
Harrit: Well, it's an
explosive. Why else would it be there?
Interviewer: You believe the
intense heat melted the building's steel support structure, and caused
the building to collapse like a house of cards?
Harrit: I cannot say
precisely, as this substance can serve both purposes. It can explode
and break things apart, and it can melt things. Both effects were
probably used, as I see it. Molten metal pours out of the South Tower
several minutes before the collapse. This indicates the whole
structure was being weakened in advance. Then the regular explosives
come into play. The actual collapse sequence had to be perfectly
timed, all the way down.
Interviewer: What quantities
are we talking about?
Harrit: A lot. There were
only two planes, but three skyscrapers collapsed. We know roughly how
much dust was created. The pictures show huge quantities, everything
but the steel was pulverized. And we know roughly how much unreacted
thermite we have found. This is the "loaded gun": material
that did not ignite for some reason. We are talking about tonnes. Over
10 tonnes, possibly 100 tonnes.
Interviewer: Ten tonnes,
possibly 100 tonnes, in three buildings? And these substances are not
normally found in such buildings?
Harrit: No. These materials
are extremely advanced.
Interviewer: How do you place
such material in a skyscraper, on all the floors?
Harrit: How you would get it
in?
Interviewer: Yes.
Harrit: If I had to transport
it in those quantities I would use pallets: get a truck and move it in
on pallets.
Interviewer: Why hasn't this
been discovered earlier?
Harrit: By whom?
Interviewer: The caretakers,
for example. If you are moving 10 to 100 tonnes of nano-thermite
around, and placing it on all the floors. I am just surprised no one
noticed.
Harrit: As a journalist, you
should address that question to the company responsible for security
at the WTC.
Interviewer: So you are in no
doubt the material was present?
Harrit: You cannot fudge this
kind of science. We have found it: unreacted thermite.
Interviewer: What responses
has your article received around the world? It is completely new
knowledge for me.
Harrit: It was only published
last Friday. So it is too early to say. But the article may not be as
groundbreaking as you think. Hundreds of thousands of people around
the world, have long known that the three buildings were demolished.
This has been crystal clear. Our research is just the last nail in the
coffin. This is not the "smoking gun"--it is the
"loaded gun." Each day, thousands of people realize that the
WTC was demolished. That is something unstoppable.
Interviewer: Why has no one
discovered earlier that there was nano-thermite in the buildings?
Almost ten years have passed.
Harrit: You mean in the
dust?
Interviewer: Yes.
Harrit: It was by chance that
someone looked at the dust with a microscope. They are tiny red chips.
The biggest are 1 mm in size, and can be seen with the naked eye. But
you need a microscope to see the vast majority. It was by chance that
someone discovered them two years ago. It has taken 18 months to
prepare the scientific article you refer to. It is a very
comprehensive article based on thorough research.
Interviewer: You have been
working on this for several years, because it didn't make sense to
you.
Harrit: Yes, over two years
actually. It all started when I saw the collapse of Building 7, the
third skyscraper. It collapsed seven hours after the twin towers. And
there were only two airplanes. When you see a 47-storey building, 186
m tall, collapse in 6.5 seconds, and you are a scientist, you think
"What?!" I had to watch it again and again. I hit the button
10 times, and my jaw dropped lower and lower. Firstly, I had never
heard of that building before. And there was no visible reason why it
should collapse in that way, straight down, in 6.5 seconds. I have had
no rest since that day.
Interviewer: Ever since 9/11
there has been speculation, and conspiracy theories. What do you say
to viewers who hear about your research and say, "We've heard it
all before, there are lots of conspiracy theories." What would
you say to convince them that this is different?
Harrit: I think there is only
one conspiracy theory worth mentioning, the one involving 19
hijackers. I think viewers should ask themselves what evidence they
have seen to support the official conspiracy theory. If anyone has
seen evidence, I would like to hear about it. No one has been formally
charged. No one is "wanted." Our work should lead to demands
for a proper criminal investigation of the 9/11 terrorist attack.
Because it never happened. We are still waiting for it. We hope our
results will be used as technical evidence when that day
comes.
Interviewer: Niels Harrit,
fascinating. Thanks for coming in.
Harrit: My
pleasure.
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Note:
1. 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, "Active
Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center
Catastrophe," Open Chemical Physics Journal, Vol. 2 (2009), pp.
7-31 http://www.bentham-open.org/pages/content.php?TOCPJ/2009/00000002/000000...
http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874412500902010007
http://visibility911.com/downloads/media/thermite-fingerprint.pdf
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