It's interesting and sometimes useful perspective to look at the history of an idea. The one about nanothermite being used on 9/11 reminding me of the one about aluminum being in contrails. That became an easy exercise in "finding" evidence to prove your theory, because aluminum is everywhere.
Evidence for nanothermite is harder to come by, but it still seems like evidence being collected to fit a theory, rather than a theory being formulated to best explain the evidence.
So where did the nanothermite theory come from? Who thought it up, and what were they basing it on? What gap in their explanation did it need to fill
It seems that just simple thermite came before nano, here's a Jun 20th 2004 post by a D. P. Grimmer:
http://physics911.net/thermite/
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/
Rivero brings up thermite in 1996 as a possible mechanism of sabotage of the plane of Ron Brown in Croatia.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/CRASH/BROWN/brown.php
The root article seems to be this one:
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/thermite.php
Unfortunately the articles on the site don't seem to be dated. So it's hard to tell what was written when. They also seem to be updated over time. That one references a 2009 article. Perhaps then this was written after.
Anyone have an recollection where this thing started?
Evidence for nanothermite is harder to come by, but it still seems like evidence being collected to fit a theory, rather than a theory being formulated to best explain the evidence.
So where did the nanothermite theory come from? Who thought it up, and what were they basing it on? What gap in their explanation did it need to fill
It seems that just simple thermite came before nano, here's a Jun 20th 2004 post by a D. P. Grimmer:
http://physics911.net/thermite/
Who are these other researchers? Grimmer gives some details:Anomalies involving the collapse of WTC buildings on 9-11 are discussed from the perspective of possible controlled demolition implosion rather than of aircraft impact and fuel-fire damage. Considered is the possible use of thermite to melt sections of the columns of the WTC towers inner cores, thus aiding in their collapse.
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Thermite has been proposed as a chemical reactant that is capable of achieving the collapse of the central cores of the WTC towers. The thermite reaction produces great heat, capable of melting steel, and since it does not produce reactant gases, there would not be the high explosive signature of a massive shock wave. It is the rapid production and heating of gas reaction products that causes destructive shock waves from high explosives. The possible use of thermite was analyzed only because other researchers have proposed it and because the properties of the reaction are relatively easy to obtain.
Hoffman was someone I'd suspected as being the source. But apparently not.[Jim] Hoffman establishes that a large amount of energy had to be available to drive that expansion, in a (minimum) range of 2,706,000 kWh to 11,724,000 kWh (see his Summary table). Hoffman does not propose an energy source to balance that sink.
Michael Rivero runs a generalized evil-jewish-bankers-illuminati type site:The immediate conjecture supported by direct observation is the following: controlled demolition, characterized by a (relatively) non-explosive, huge energy release necessary to melt (some) steel. M. Rivero of whatreallyhappened.com and others have proposed the use of thermite, familiar to those of us who had the high school chemistry course with an impressive thermite demonstration.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/
Rivero brings up thermite in 1996 as a possible mechanism of sabotage of the plane of Ron Brown in Croatia.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/CRASH/BROWN/brown.php
It was mentioned in passing in a 2002 article on WTC1, but seemingly just a temperature reference, no suggestion of it being used for demolition.It's impossible to state, based on the information available to the public. But thermite is a definite possibility. It can be made using available materials and will not show up on the various detectors which would sense chemical explosives such as C-4. Thermite, when ignited, burns at half the temperature of the surface of the sun and would burn through the aluminum of an aircraft with ease.
The root article seems to be this one:
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/thermite.php
Unfortunately the articles on the site don't seem to be dated. So it's hard to tell what was written when. They also seem to be updated over time. That one references a 2009 article. Perhaps then this was written after.
Anyone have an recollection where this thing started?