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{{short description|American physicist}}
'''Steven Earl Jones''' is a professor of ] at ] who conducts research in ] and ].
{{Other uses|Stephen Jones (disambiguation)}}

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Although the term '']'' was , his experimental work was significantly different from the more controversial cold fusion experiments of ] and ].
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'''Steven Earl Jones''' (born March 25, 1949)<ref name="Jones BYU CV"/> is an American ]. Among scientists, Jones became known for his research into ] and geo-fusion.<ref>Steven E Jones & ], '''' (New York: American Institute of Physics, 1989).</ref><ref>George L Trigg, ed, ''Encyclopedia of Applied Physics'', Volume 14: ''Physical Geology to Polymer Dynamics'' (New York: VCH Publishers, 1996), : "Dr. Steven Jones of Brigham Young University, who had long studied muon-catalyzed fusion...".</ref><ref>Thomas F Gieryn, ''Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the Line'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), .</ref> Jones is also known for his association with ].<ref name=Atkins2011Scholars>Stephen E Atkins, "Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice" , in S E Atkins, ed, ''The 9/11 Encyclopedia'', 2nd edn (Santa Barbara CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011).</ref><ref name=SummersSwan2011p99>Anthony Summers & Robbyn Swan, ''The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11'' (New York: Ballantine Books, 2011), .</ref> Jones has claimed that airplane crashes and fires could not have caused the ] and ], suggesting ] instead.<ref name=SummersSwan2011p99/><ref>Peter Phillips & Mickey Huff w/ Project Censored, eds, ''Media Democracy in Action: Censored 2010: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2008-09'' (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2009), "Censored 2007 #18", .</ref> In late 2006, ] (BYU) officials placed him on paid leave until he elected to retire in an agreement with BYU.<ref name="DN_Retire">{{cite news |url=http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,650200587,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061103100717/http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0%2C1249%2C650200587%2C00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 3, 2006 |title=BYU professor in dispute over 9/11 will retire: Jones had been placed on leave 6 weeks ago |last=Walch |first=Tad |date=October 21, 2006 |publisher=Deseret Morning News |access-date=September 4, 2007}}</ref> Jones continued research and writing following his early retirement from BYU.<ref name="Europhysicsnews2016"/>
Currently, Jones is also investigating the ] that the ] Twin Towers and ] were brought down by pre-positioned cutter charges.

Jones was of the ] as "a devout Mormon and, until recently, a faithful supporter of George W. Bush."


==Education== ==Education==
Jones earned his bachelor's degree in physics, ], from Brigham Young University in 1973, and his Ph.D. in ] from ] in 1978. From 1974 to 1977, Jones conducted his PhD research at the ] Center (SLAC), and post-doctoral research at ] and the ].<ref name="Jones BYU CV">{{cite web|url=http://www.physics.byu.edu/research/atomic/physics1/atomic/jones_cv.htm|title=CURRICULUM VITAE|website=www.physics.byu.edu|access-date=April 16, 2018|archive-date=April 5, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130405235635/http://www.physics.byu.edu/research/atomic/physics1/atomic/jones_cv.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>


==Research interests==
In 1973, Jones earned his bachelors degree in physics, ] with honors, from Brigham Young University, and his PhD in ] from ] in 1978. Jones conducted his ] research at the ] Center from 1974 to 1977), and post-doctoral research at ] and the ].
Jones conducted research at the ], in Idaho Falls, ] where, from 1979 to 1985, he was a senior engineering specialist. He was ] for experimental ] from 1982 to 1991 for the ] (DOE), Division of Advanced Energy Projects. From 1985 to 1993, Jones studied ]-based fusion in the context of ] under DOE and Electric Power Research Institute sponsorship. Jones also collaborated in experiments at other physics laboratories, including ] (]), ] (]), ] (]), and the ] near ].<ref name="Jones BYU CV"/>{{citation needed|date = August 2018}}


Around 1985, Jones became interested in anomalous concentrations of ] and ] found in gases escaping from ]es. He hypothesized that metals and high pressures in the Earth's interior might make fusion more likely, and began a series of experiments on what he referred to as geo-fusion, or ''piezofusion,'' high-pressure fusion. To characterize the reactions, Jones claimed to have designed and constructed a ] counter that was capable of accurately measuring minuscule numbers of neutrons produced in his experiments. The counter indicated that a small amount of fusion was occurring, according to Jones, but that it was likely not useful energy production.{{citation needed|date = August 2018}}
==Cold Fusion==


Jones' interests extend to ], ],<ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.physics.byu.edu/research/energy |title = Steven E. Jones' biography at BYU | access-date = August 3, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://solarcooking.org/plans/funnel.htm |title=The Solar Funnel Cooker |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070111211701/http://solarcooking.org/plans/funnel.htm |archive-date=January 11, 2007 |df=mdy |access-date=November 28, 2006 }}</ref>
In the mid 1980s, Jones and other BYU scientists demonstrated an interesting new effect related to the potential for harnessing energy from cold fusion, now also referred to as ]. The Jones process &ndash; not to be confused with the ] research of ] and ] &ndash; did not produce excess heat, and therefore did not provide a source of energy. The Jones process, through measurement of charged particles, demonstrated excellent validation that nuclear processes can occur in a relatively simple, room temperature experiment.
and, like numerous professors at BYU, ].<ref>For the relationship between ] and ] scholarship see generally John-Charles Duffy. "Defending the Kingdom, Rethinking the Faith: How Apologetics Is Reshaping Mormon Orthodoxy." '']'', May 2004, 22-55.</ref> He has interpreted archaeological evidence from the ] as supporting his faith's belief that ] (when resurrected) visited America.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.physics.byu.edu/faculty/jones/rel491/handstext+and+figures.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170510201139/http://www.physics.byu.edu/faculty/jones/rel491/handstext+and+figures.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 10, 2017 |title=''Behold My Hands: Evidence for Christ's Visit in Ancient America,'' by Steven Jones |access-date=June 1, 2016 }}, article claiming evidence that Jesus Christ visited the Americas (also )</ref> Jones is a member of ] and has been described as "a devout Mormon."<ref name="Chronicle">{{cite news |last=Gravois |first=John |date=June 23, 2006 |title=Professors of Paranoia? |url=http://www.chronicle.com/article/Professors-of-Paranoia-/9095 |access-date=September 14, 2016 |work=The Chronicle of Higher Education |page=A.10 |volume=52 |issue=42 |quote=Soon after Mr. Jones posted his paper online, the physics department at Brigham Young moved to distance itself from his work. The department released a statement saying that it was 'not convinced that his analyses and hypotheses have been submitted to relevant scientific venues that would ensure rigorous technical peer review.'}}</ref> In 2016-17, he and his wife served as full-time Senior Missionaries in the New Jersey Morristown Mission of the Church.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/NewJerseyMorristownMission/reviews {{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=March 2022}}</ref>


===Muon-catalyzed fusion===
Jones did not claim that any useful energy was produced. Rather, he reported slightly more neutrons were detected from experiments than could be expected from normal sources. Jones said the result suggested at least the possibility of fusion, though unlikely to be useful as an energy source. A New York Times article entitled '''' notes that while peer-reviewers were quite critical of Pons and Fleishchmann's research, they did not apply such criticism to Jones' much more modest findings. The reviewing physicists stated that "Dr. Jones is a careful scientist."
In the mid-1980s, Jones and other ] scientists worked on what he referred to as ''Cold Nuclear Fusion'' in a '']'' article (the process is currently known as ] to avoid confusion with the ] concept proposed by the ]'s ] and ]). Muon-catalyzed fusion was a field of some interest during the 1980s as a potential energy source; however, its low energy output appears to be unavoidable (because of alpha-muon sticking losses). Jones led a research team that, in 1986, achieved 150 fusions per muon (average), releasing over 2,600 MeV of fusion energy per ], a record which still stands.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Jones|first=Steven Earl|date=1986|title=Muon-catalysed fusion revisited|journal=Nature|language=En|volume=321|issue=6066|pages=127–133|doi=10.1038/321127a0|issn=0028-0836|bibcode=1986Natur.321..127J|s2cid=39819102}}</ref>


Pons and Fleischmann commenced their work at approximately the same time. Jones became aware of their work when they applied for research funding from the DOE, after which the DOE forwarded their proposal to Jones for ]. When Jones realized that their work was similar, he and Pons and Fleischmann agreed to release their papers to ] on the same day (March 24, 1989). However, Pons and Fleischmann announced their results at a press event the day before Jones faxed his paper to ''Nature''.<ref> {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060828113846/http://blake.montclair.edu/~kowalskil/cf/131history.html |date=August 28, 2006 }}</ref>
==WTC Collapse Hypothesis==
Professor Jones has written a paper regarding the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, entitled ''''. It has been and is scheduled for publication in , a volume edited by ] and ], in September 2006 by Olive Branch Press. In Jones' treatise, he cites evidence he says supports the hypothesis that ], rather than simply the impact of jet airliners and the ensuing fires, caused the Twin Towers and ] to collapse.


According to a '']'' report, although peer reviewers were harshly critical of Pons' and Fleischmann's research, they did not apply such criticism to Jones' significantly more modest, theoretically supported findings. Critics insisted that Jones' results were probably caused by experimental error;<ref>{{cite news |last = Browne |first = Malcolm W. |year = 1989 |url = http://partners.nytimes.com/library/national/science/050399sci-cold-fusion.html |title = Physicists Debunk Claim Of a New Kind of Fusion |work = Science |publisher = The New York Times
WTC 7 was not hit by an airplane, but did receive some damage from the collapse of the South Tower. Citing data in the NIST and FEMA reports, Jones shows that this ''"damage was clearly non-symmetrical"''. In the following passage from his paper, he suggests that non-symmetrical damage and random fires would not lead to a near-symmetrical :
|access-date = July 14, 2006}}</ref> the majority of the reviewing physicists claimed that he was a careful scientist. Later research and experiments have supported Jones' metallic "]" (geo-fusion) reports.<ref>{{cite journal |year = 2001 |title = Enhancement of the electron screening effect for d+ d fusion reactions in metallic environments | pages=449–455| volume= 54| number= 4| quote=...the observed enhancement of the electron screening in metal targets can, in tendency, explain the small neutron production rates observed in the cold-fusion experiment of Jones . |bibcode = 2001EL.....54..449C
|author1 = Czerski, K.
|author2 = Huke, A.
|author3 = Biller, A.
|author4 = Heide, P.
|author5 = Hoeft, M.
|author6 = Ruprecht, G.
|journal = Europhysics Letters
|doi = 10.1209/epl/i2001-00265-7|citeseerx = 10.1.1.380.6953 |s2cid = 250756853 }}</ref>


In July 2013, Jones gave a poster talk at the ] at the ], titled, "Empirical Evidence for Two Distinct Effects: Low-level d-d Fusion in Metals and Anomalous Excess Heat."<ref>{{Cite journal |last = Jones |first = Steven Earl |year = 2013 |url = https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/handle/10355/36502 |title = Empirical Evidence for Two Distinct Effects: Low-level d-d Fusion in Metals and Anomalous Excess Heat |website = Posters (18th International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science) |publisher = University of Missouri |access-date = December 24, 2014}}</ref>
:''"A near-symmetrical collapse, as observed, evidently requires the simultaneous “pulling” of many of the support columns. ... The likelihood of complete and nearly-symmetrical collapse due to random fires as in the “official” theory is small, since non-symmetrical failure is so much more likely. If one or a few columns had failed, one might expect a portion of the building to crumble while leaving much of the building standing. For example, major portions of WTC 5 remained standing on 9/11 despite very significant impact damage and severe fires"''


==9/11 conspiracy theories==
For comparison purposes, Jones directs the reader to controlled demolition videos of the Philips Building, Southwark Towers, and Schuylkill Falls Tower at the website. He believes the reader may find similarities between the known controlled demolitions videos at Implosion World and the .
===World Trade Center destruction paper and response===
On September 22, 2005, at a BYU seminar attended by around 60 people, Jones publicly presented his views regarding the 2001 ] towers and ] during the ]. Jones noted he believed it was more likely a ], using ], referencing the speed and symmetry of the collapses, and characteristics of dust jets. Later, Jones said he had identified grey-red flakes found in the dust as nanothermite traces and that the thermite reaction products (] and iron-rich microspheres) were also found in the dust.<ref name="benthamscience.com"> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304145947/http://www.benthamscience.com/open/tocpj/articles/V002/7TOCPJ.htm?TOCPJ%2F2009%2F00000002%2F00000001%2F7TOCPJ.SGM |date=March 4, 2012 }}. By 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. {{ISSN|1874-4125}} {{doi|10.2174/1874412500902010007}}. ''The Open Chemical Physics Journal.'' pp 7-31</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wtc7.net/articles/stevenjones_b7_051122.html |title=Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse? |access-date=September 9, 2008 |last=Jones |first=Steven E. |quote=I presented my objections to the "official" theory at a seminar at BYU on September 22, 2005, to about 60 people. I also showed evidence and scientific arguments for the explosive demolition theory.}}</ref> Shortly after the seminar, Jones placed a research paper entitled "Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse?" on his page in the Physics department Web site, commenting that BYU had no responsibility for the paper.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.physics.byu.edu/research/energy/htm7.html |title=Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse? |access-date=April 10, 2010 |last=Jones |first=Steven E. |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20051124011753/http://www.physics.byu.edu/research/energy/htm7.html |archive-date = November 24, 2005}}</ref>


The paper was self-published in the online ''Journal of 9/11 Studies'', a journal co-founded and co-edited by Jones. It also appeared in a volume of essays, ''9/11 and American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out'', edited by ] and ].<ref>{{cite book |title=9/11 and American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out, Vol 1 |date=August 23, 2006 |publisher=Olive Branch Press |isbn=978-1-56656-659-9 |editor-last=Griffin |editor-first=David Ray |page=247 pages |editor2=Peter Dale Scott}}</ref> It was controversial both for its content and its claims to scientific rigor.<ref name="Chronicle" /> Jones' early critics included members of BYU's engineering faculty;<ref>{{cite web |last=Firmage |first=D. Allan |date=April 9, 2006 |title=Refuting 9/11 Conspiracy Theory |url=http://www.netxnews.net/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/04/09/443801bdadd6e |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120418153431/http://www.netxnews.net/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/04/09/443801bdadd6e |archive-date=April 18, 2012 |access-date=September 4, 2007 |website=Letter to the Editor |publisher=NetXNews (online edition of College Times, the Utah Valley State College student newspaper) |df=mdy-all}}</ref> shortly after he made his views public, the BYU College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences and the faculty of structural engineering issued statements in which they distanced themselves from Jones' work. They noted that Jones' "hypotheses and interpretations of evidence were being questioned by scholars and practitioners," and expressed doubts on whether they had been "submitted to relevant scientific venues that would ensure rigorous technical peer review."<ref>{{cite news |last=McIlvain |first=Ryan |date=December 5, 2005 |title=Censor rumors quelled |url=http://newsnet.byu.edu/story.cfm/57724 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090507180506/http://newsnet.byu.edu/story.cfm/57724 |archive-date=May 7, 2009 |access-date=September 4, 2007 |publisher=BYU NewsNet |quote=Professor Jones's department and college administrators are not convinced that his analyses and hypotheses have been submitted to relevant scientific venues that would ensure rigorous technical peer review. The structural engineering faculty in the Fulton College of Engineering and Technology do not support the hypotheses of Professor Jones. |df=mdy-all}}</ref>
A central topic within Jones' hypothesis is the contention that the condition and nature of the debris which remained following the buildings' collapses was not consistent with the scenarios documented by FEMA and NIST. Citing several published reports, he claims that molten metal was found at Ground Zero. In addition, he provides photographs and video-clips which he says shows molten metal in the debris and dripping from the south tower. Jones claims that ] jet fuel fires are not hot enough to melt steel or iron. Jones has ruled out ''"with high probability"'' aluminum as the source of the molten metal, using


Over the following year, Jones presented his WTC research in lectures at ], ], University of Colorado at Boulder and University of Denver, University of California at Berkeley and Davis, and the University of Texas at Austin.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.journalof911studies.com/volume/200609/DrJonesTalksatISUPhysicsDepartment |title=What Caused Not Two but Three World Trade Center Skyscrapers to COMPLETELY Collapse on 9/11/2001? |access-date=September 4, 2007 |format=pdf |last=Jones |first=Steven E |date=September 22, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927210441/http://www.journalof911studies.com/volume/200609/DrJonesTalksatISUPhysicsDepartment |archive-date=September 27, 2007 |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Jones |first=Steven E |url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=964034652002408586 |access-date=September 4, 2007 |title=9/11 Revisited: Scientific and Ethical Questions |date=February 1, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070826183748/http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=964034652002408586 |archive-date=August 26, 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Riley |first=Michael |url=http://www.denverpost.com/newsheadlines/ci_4572518 |title=Backers hail 9/11 theorist's speech |date=October 29, 2006 |access-date=September 4, 2007 |publisher=Denver Post |work=Denver & The West}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Physicist says heat substance felled WTC |last=Dean |first=Suzanne |url=http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,635198488,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060411152937/http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,635198488,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 11, 2006 |date=April 10, 2006 |access-date=September 4, 2007 |publisher=Deseret Morning News}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sonoma.edu/pubs/newsrelease/archives/000865.html |date=October 26, 2006 |access-date=September 4, 2007 |title=Scholars For Truth Founder Is Keynote Speaker for Media Accountability Conference, Nov. 3 And 4}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://liftingthefog.org/program.html |date=November 11, 2006 |access-date=September 4, 2007 | title=Analysis of the World Trade Center Destruction |website=Lifting the Fog: The Scientific Method Applied to the World Trade Center Disaster}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pnacitizen.org/41407event.php |title=The Twin Towers in scientific detail |website=Project for a New American Citizen: Rebuilding America's Senses |date=April 14, 2007 |access-date=September 4, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070901063540/http://www.pnacitizen.org/41407event.php |archive-date=September 1, 2007 }}</ref>
There were also reports on . Although FEMA mentioned this sulfidation in their report, it has not been included in the NIST report.


==== Retirement from BYU ====
Jones cites a New York Times article entitled ''Engineers are baffled over the collapse of 7 WTC; Steel members have been partly evaporated''. Using the professional comments from experts mentioned in this article, he tries to show that modern high rise buildings have never before completely collapsed from fire.
On September 7, 2006, Jones removed his paper from BYU's website at the request of administrators and was placed on paid leave.<ref name="Deseret Morning News">{{cite web |last=Walch |first=Tad |date=September 14, 2006 |url=http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,645201360,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070316160642/http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,645201360,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 16, 2007|title=BYU's Jones Denies Bias| publisher=Deseret News | access-date=October 9, 2007}}</ref> The university cited its concern about the "increasingly speculative and accusatory nature" of Jones' work and that perhaps Jones' research had "not been published in appropriate scientific venues" as reasons for putting him under review. Six weeks later he chose to retire, and the review was not pursued further.<ref>{{cite news |last=McFarland |first=Sheena |date=September 8, 2006 |publisher=Salt Lake Tribune |title=BYU prof on paid leave for 9/11 theory }}</ref><ref name="DN_Retire" />


Some of Jones' colleagues also defended Jones' 9/11 work,<ref name="Deseretnews">{{cite web |last=Walch |first=Tad |date=September 18, 2006 |url=https://www.deseret.com/2006/9/18/19974713/three-at-byu-praise-jones |title=Three at BYU praise Jones | access-date=September 3, 2007 |work=Deseret News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210210225159if_/https://www.deseret.com/2006/9/18/19974713/three-at-byu-praise-jones |archive-date=10 February 2021 |url-status=live |language=en}}</ref> and Project Censored listed his 9/11 research among the top mainstream media censored stories of 2007.<ref name="Project Censored">{{cite web |last=Kramer |first=John |author2=David Abbott |author3=Courtney Wilcox |year=2007 | url=http://projectcensored.org/censored_2007/index.htm#18 |title=Physicist Challenges Official 9-11 Story |website=Project Censored |access-date=September 3, 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070902044813/http://www.projectcensored.org/censored_2007/index.htm#18 <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = September 2, 2007}}</ref> His placement on paid leave drew criticism from the ] and the ]. Both organizations have long been critics of BYU's record on academic freedom.<ref>{{cite news |title=BYU action on Jones lamented |url=http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,645200780,00.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120724154945/http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,645200780,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 24, 2012 |last = Walch |first=Tad |publisher=Deseret Morning News |date=September 14, 2006 |access-date=September 3, 2007}}</ref>
The physics professor also says, showing still pictures and video clips, that all three buildings fell almost symmetrically, at near freefall speed, into their footprints. He maintains that this phenomenon is associated with 'controlled demolition'. He also says, among other evidence, the ''"pulverization of concrete to flour-like powder"'', and the presence of horizontal puffs of smoke observed, are common when pre-positioned explosives are used to demolish buildings. Jones claims that some aspects of the buildings' collapses remain poorly understood and that the demolition hypothesis can quickly resolve much of the debate. A passage in his paper addresses this point:


=== Subsequent papers ===
:''"How do the upper floors fall so quickly, then, and still conserve momentum in the collapsing buildings? The contradiction is ignored by FEMA, NIST and 9-11 Commission reports where conservation of momentum and the fall times were not analyzed. The paradox is easily resolved by the explosive demolition hypothesis, whereby explosives quickly remove lower-floor material including steel support columns and allow near free-fall-speed collapses." (Harris, 2000).''
Jones was later interviewed by mainstream news sources and made public appearances. He urged caution in drawing conclusions.<ref name="AnsQJones">{{cite web |last = Jones |first = Steven E| date=July 18, 2006 |url=http://www.journalof911studies.com/articles/JonesAnswersQuestionsWorldTradeCenter.pdf |title=Answers to Objections and Questions |access-date=September 4, 2007}}</ref> His name was often mentioned in reporting about ].<ref>{{cite news |last=Dwyer |first=Jim |title =U.S. Reports Seek to Counter Conspiracy Theories About 9/11 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/02/nyregion/02conspiracy.html |work = ] |date=September 2, 2006 |access-date=April 8, 2008}}</ref>


In August 2008, Jones, along with Kevin Ryan and James Gourley, published a peer-reviewed article in ''The Environmentalist'', titled, 'Environmental anomalies at the World Trade Center: Evidence for energetic materials'.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Environmental anomalies at the World Trade Center: evidence for energetic materials |journal=The Environmentalist |volume=29 |pages=56–63 |last=Jones |first=Steven E|doi=10.1007/s10669-008-9182-4 |year=2008 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
The ] and fall times were also by , a ] professor at ]. Jones references and refers to her paper as ''"instructive although preliminary"''.


In April 2009, Jones co-authored a paper in ''The Open Chemical Physics Journal'', titled, 'Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe'.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe |journal=The Open Chemical Physics Journal |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=7–31 |last=Harrit |first=Niels H |df=mdy-all |bibcode=2009OCPJ....2....7H |year=2009 |doi=10.2174/1874412500902010007 |doi-access=free }}</ref> The editor of the journal, Professor ], an expert in explosives and nano-technology,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sri.jussieu.fr/cv-pileni.htm |title=Professor Marie-Paule Pileni |access-date=September 14, 2009 |website=Laboratoire des Matériaux Mésoscopiques et Nanométriques |publisher=] |quote=1990–1994: Société Nationale des Poudres et Explosifs, SNPE, France. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090501150348/http://www.sri.jussieu.fr/cv-pileni.htm |archive-date=May 1, 2009 |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chemistry.gatech.edu/faculty/Pileni/ |title=Marie-Paule Pileni |access-date=September 14, 2009 |website=Georgia Institute of Technology }}</ref> resigned. She received an e-mail from the Danish science journal ''Videnskab'' asking for her professional assessment of the article's content.<ref name="Chefredaktor">{{cite journal|last=Hoffmann|first=Thomas|title=Chefredaktør skrider efter kontroversiel artikel om 9/11|journal=Videnskab|date=April 28, 2009|url=http://videnskab.dk/content/dk/naturvidenskab/chefredaktor_skrider_efter_kontroversiel_artikel_om_911|access-date=November 15, 2009|quote=Mailen får hende til med det samme at smække med døren til tidsskriftet.|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091201114804/http://videnskab.dk/content/dk/naturvidenskab/chefredaktor_skrider_efter_kontroversiel_artikel_om_911|archive-date=December 1, 2009|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name="Pileni">{{cite web |url=http://screwloosechange.blogspot.com.br/2009/04/bentham-editor-resigns-over-steven.html |title=Bentham Editor Resigns over Steven Jones' Paper |access-date=May 17, 2014 |date=April 28, 2009}}</ref> According to Pileni, the article was published without her authorization. Subsequently, numerous concerns arose regarding the reliability of the publisher, ]. This included the publishing an allegedly peer reviewed article generated by ]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17288-crap-paper-accepted-by-journal.html#.VKNxBvldUrU |title=CRAP paper accepted by journal}}</ref> (although this program has also successfully submitted papers to ] and ]<ref>{{cite web|last1=Van Noorden|first1=Richard|title=How three MIT students fooled the world of scientific journals|url=https://news.mit.edu/2015/how-three-mit-students-fooled-scientific-journals-0414|website=Nature.com|date=April 14, 2015 |access-date=11 August 2016}}</ref>), the resignation of multiple people at the administrative level,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/27461/title/Editors-quit-after-fake-paper-flap/ |title=Editors Quit After Fake Paper Flap}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://activistteacher.blogspot.com/2010/11/editor-in-chief-resigned-over-harrit-et.html#links |title=Editor in Chief resigned over Harrit et al. nanothermite paper |date=2010-11-11 }}</ref> and soliciting article submissions from researchers in unrelated fields through spam.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/04/some-background-on-bentham-open-but.html |title=Some background on Bentham Open, but just some}}</ref>
Jones also examines the official reports by the ] (FEMA), ] (NIST) and the ] (aka the 9/11 Commission), which all conclude fires and damage alone caused complete demolition of all three buildings. (Although, the 9/11 Commission did not mention the collapse of WTC 7 in their report.)


''Europhysics News'', in August 2016, published a feature "15 Years Later: On the Physics of High-rise Building Collapses," which strongly challenges the official U.S. Government (]) narrative of the collapse of WTC7 and the WTC Towers, including a disclaimer about the speculative and not peer reviewed status of the article.<ref name="Europhysicsnews2016">{{Cite journal|last=Jones|first=Steven|date=24 August 2016|title=15 years later: on the physics of high-rise building collapses|url=http://www.europhysicsnews.org/articles/epn/pdf/2016/04/epn2016474p21.pdf|journal=Europhysics News|volume=47|issue=4|pages=21–26|bibcode=2016ENews..47d..21J|doi=10.1051/epn/2016402|access-date=16 September 2016|doi-access=free}}</ref> The paper was authored by Steven Jones, Robert Korol, Anthony Szamboti and Ted Walter.
Quoting the official NIST report, Jones explains why, in his opinion, the NIST investigators did not find evidence for a controlled demolition. His paper says that much of the evidence for controlled demolitions comes following the collapse initiation stage. But according to the NIST report, the NIST team truncated their investigation at the collapse initiation point.


===Scholars, Architects, and Engineers for 9/11 Truth===
:''"...although does not actually include the structural behavior of the tower after the conditions for collapse initiation were reached."''
In December 2005, Jones was a founding member of ]. In 2006, most of its members left that organization to establish ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stj911.org/|title=Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice|website=www.stj911.org|access-date=April 16, 2018|archive-date=September 27, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927204029/http://stj911.org/|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{citation needed|date = August 2018}} Also in 2006, Jones became a founding member of ], and an editor of the ''Journal of 9/11 Studies''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://journalof911studies.org/|title=Journal of 9/11 Studies - Truth Matters|website=journalof911studies.org|access-date=April 16, 2018}}</ref>

As described in his November 10th, 2005 with ] news, Jones "is not saying this is a proven ], but rather a ]. He wants a fresh new independent investigation."


Jones says that new analysis he performed with colleagues at BYU on WTC steel samples taken from 9/11 memorial parks show evidence of thermite. In a taken on June 17, 2006, Jones said ''"using advanced techniques we're finding out what's in these samples - we're finding iron, sulphur, potassium and manganese - these are characteristic of a variation of thermite which is used to cut through steel very rapidly, it's called thermate." ... "The evidence points directly to controlled demolition which means an inside job brought these World Trade Center buildings down."''

===Critics===
Some critics have claimed that Jones' analysis, which he presents as a hypothesis supported by the available evidence, is similar to that of other researchers which they have disputed in the past, including claims regarding photographic evidence of demolition charges, the claim that no major persistent fires were visible at WTC7, and what they contend are quotes selectively edited from Bill Manning and Stephen Gregory.

A few department chairmen at Jones' university have issued critical statements, though none of these has yet addressed any of the points which Jones made in his paper and at his presentation at BYU. Chairman of the BYU department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Dr. Miller, is on record stating in an e-mail, "I think without exception, the ] professors in our department are not in agreement with the claims made by Jones in his paper, and they don't think there is accuracy and validity to these claims".

The BYU physics department has also issued a statement: "The university is aware that Professor Steven Jones's hypotheses and interpretations of evidence regarding the collapse of World Trade Center buildings are being questioned by a number of scholars and practitioners, including many of BYU's own faculty members." The Fulton College of Engineering and Technology department has also added, "The structural engineering faculty in the Fulton College of Engineering and Technology do not support the hypotheses of Professor Jones."

In April 2006, BYU removed those statements from their website following a letter saying that Jones' paper was, indeed, peer reviewed. The letter, written by to Alan Parkinson, Dean of the Fulton College of Engineering and Technology, also says that McGinn is entitled to file an ethics complaint with the ] against Parkinson for continuing to run those statements. An excerpt from the letter follows:

:''"...no dean has the right to represent individual faculty, much less the entire faculty of BYU’s Engineering College, on the issue of whether they do (or do not) “support” a colleague’s research, whether published or in-progress. The offending statement is a breach of collegiality, and seems as well to infringe upon Professor Jones’ academic freedom.''

:''Most poignantly, it is inconsistent with the code of ethics of the American Society of Civil Engineers, by which you, as dean of the Engineering College, are bound, given that your web site claims to represent the opinions of an entire faculty of BYU engineers. The ASCR Code states in part:''

::''"CANON 5.''

::''g. Engineers shall not maliciously or falsely, directly or indirectly, injure the professional reputation, prospects, practice or employment of another engineer or indiscriminately criticize another's work."''

:''If members of the College disagree with Dr. Jones' assertions in his paper that the official FEMA and NIST reports are inadequate as they stand, then they should be specific in their reasons for supporting those reports, neither of which provides (routine) visualizations for finite element analyses..."''


However, as Jones is not an engineer, he does not qualify for the protections of the ASCE.

==Affiliations==
Jones is Co-Chair of ], an organization currently Congress for the release of evidence, including the almost 14,000 pictures and videos held by NIST of the World Trade Center site on 9/11/01. Jones is hoping for the release of this evidence for his controlled demolition hypothesis paper.

Jones does not identify himself as either a ] or ], but does "support the ]"

Jones is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.


==Recognition and awards== ==Recognition and awards==
* 1968, ] Scholarship at BYU; ]<ref name="Jones BYU CV"/>

* 1973–1978 Tuition Scholarship and Research Fellowship at Vanderbilt University
* 1968, David O. McKay Scholarship at BYU; ]
* 1973-1978 Tuition Scholarship and Research Fellowship at Vanderbilt University
* 1989 Outstanding Young Scholar Award (BYU); Best of What's New for 1989 ('']''); Creativity Prize (Japanese Creativity Society) * 1989 Outstanding Young Scholar Award (BYU); Best of What's New for 1989 ('']''); Creativity Prize (Japanese Creativity Society)
* 1990 BYU Young Scholar Award; Annual Lecturer, BYU Chapter of ] * 1990 BYU Young Scholar Award; Annual Lecturer, BYU Chapter of ]
* 2005 BYU Alcuin Award and Fellowship, for excellence in teaching


==References==
==Research interests and background==
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Jones conducted research at the ], in ], from 1979 to 1985, where he was a senior engineering specialist. He was the principal investigator for experimental muon-catalyzed fusion from 1982 to 1991 for the ], Division of Advanced Energy Projects. From 1990 to 1993, Jones researched fusion in condensed matter and ], for the U.S. Department of Energy and for the ].

Jones has also been a collaborator in several experiments, including experiments at TRIUMF (]), The National High Energy Laboratory, KEK (]), and the ] at ].

Jones has also researched ], ], and ].

Jones published a paper entitled in which he uses archeological evidence to support the claims of ] (founder of the ]) that ] had visited the ] after his ]. The evidence pointed to is ] depictions of deities which have ] like markings on their hands.

A non-LDS scholar explains the Mayan legend:
"According to tradition, appeared as morning star after being dead for days, the period between disappearance of Venus as evening star and the planet's reappearance as morning star. As Venus as morning star is frequently depicted with death symbols, one may assume that he obtained these in his journey through the underworld during the days between his disappearance in the west as evening star and reappearance as morning star in the east."

==See also==

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==External links== ==External links==
*, Bio on Steven E. Jones * {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100610062849/http://www.physics.byu.edu/research/energy/ |date=June 10, 2010 }}
* - 'Cold Fusion'

* and ]
* - Review (by ]) of the cold fusion work of Steven Jones. This article interprets cold fusion within the framework of the fracto-fusion model. This review is very critical and gives a good reference list.
* - 'Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007,' Project Censored, Nov 2006.
* , Oct 26, 2006.


===Links covering Steven Jones' Cold Fusion research===
* - 'Cold Fusion'
* - 'Cold Fusion Frequently Asked Questions (For nonscientists)' * article covering Cold Fusion with mention of Jones' contributions
* article covering Cold Fusion with mention of Jones' contributions
* New York Times, Malcolm W. Browne, May 3, 1989
* {{gutenberg author| id=Steven+E.+Jones | name=Steven E. Jones}}
** - 'The BYU Solar Cooker/Cooler'


'''Links covering Professor Jones' 9/11 research:''' ===Links covering Steven Jones' 9/11 research===
* by Steven Jones, video recording of the one-day conference "Lifting the fog: the scientific method applied to the world trade center disaster" held at the ], Berkeley Campus, November 11, 2006.
*, Co-Chair
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* (DRAFT 6.5), ], Steven E. Jones
* by Steven E. Jones
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* PDF presentation by Steven E. Jones
*, '']'', November 10, 2005
* {{Cite web |last=Gravois |first=John |year=2006 |title=A theory that just won't die |url=http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=2bcf9f07-6407-4b2c-9f4e-7d4a15afcb98&k=46273 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212210153/http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=2bcf9f07-6407-4b2c-9f4e-7d4a15afcb98&k=46273 |archive-date=February 12, 2012 |access-date=August 21, 2006 |website=News |publisher=CanWest Interactive |df=mdy}}
* KUTV (CBS affiliate), Salt Lake City, UT, November 10, 2005 - '''Video'''
* {{Cite journal |last=Jones |first=Steven E. |last2=Legge |first2=Frank M. |last3=Ryan |first3=Kevin R. |last4=Szamboti |first4=Anthony F. |last5=Gourley |first5=James R. |date=2008-04-22 |title=Fourteen Points of Agreement with Official Government Reports on the World Trade Center Destruction |url=http://benthamopen.com/ABSTRACT/TOCIEJ-2-35 |journal=The Open Civil Engineering Journal |language=en |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=35–40 |doi=10.2174/1874149500802010035 |issn=1874-1495}}
*MSNBC: Tucker Carlson's The Situation - - November 15, 2005
* {{Cite journal |last=Ryan |first=Kevin R. |last2=Gourley |first2=James R. |last3=Jones |first3=Steven E. |date=March 2009 |title=Environmental anomalies at the World Trade Center: evidence for energetic materials |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10669-008-9182-4 |journal=The Environmentalist |language=en |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=56–63 |doi=10.1007/s10669-008-9182-4 |issn=0251-1088|doi-access=free }}
** that MSNBC did not show during interview
* {{Cite journal |last=Harrit |first=Niels H. |last2=Farrer |first2=Jeffrey |last3=Jones |first3=Steven E. |last4=Ryan |first4=Kevin R. |last5=Legge |first5=Frank M. |last6=Farnsworth |first6=Daniel |last7=Roberts |first7=Gregg |last8=Gourley |first8=James R. |last9=Larsen |first9=Bradley R. |date=2009-04-10 |title=Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe |url=http://benthamopen.com/ABSTRACT/TOCPJ-2-7 |journal=The Open Chemical Physics Journal |language=en |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=7–31 |doi=10.2174/1874412500902010007 |issn= 1874-4125|doi-access=free }}
* ''Pittsburgh Tribune-Review'' - November 20, 2005
* ''Vermont Guardian'' - November 22, 2005
* Utah Valley State College, Orem, UT February 1, 2006 - Other Formats & PowerPoint Presentation: - '''Video'''
* ''Daily Herald'', Central Utah - February 02, 2006
* ''NetXNews'' - February 05, 2006
* Provo, UT April 6, 2006 - '''Video'''
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* May 24, 2006 - '''MP3 Interview'''
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* June 7, 2006 - '''MP3 Interview'''
* June 12, 2006 - '''MP3 Interview'''
* June 17, 2006 - '''Video Interview'''
* ''PrisonPlanet.com'' June 20, 2006


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American physicist For other uses, see Stephen Jones (disambiguation).

Steven Earl Jones (born March 25, 1949) is an American physicist. Among scientists, Jones became known for his research into muon-catalyzed fusion and geo-fusion. Jones is also known for his association with 9/11 conspiracy theories. Jones has claimed that airplane crashes and fires could not have caused the fall of the World Trade Center Towers and 7 World Trade Center, suggesting controlled demolition instead. In late 2006, Brigham Young University (BYU) officials placed him on paid leave until he elected to retire in an agreement with BYU. Jones continued research and writing following his early retirement from BYU.

Education

Jones earned his bachelor's degree in physics, magna cum laude, from Brigham Young University in 1973, and his Ph.D. in physics from Vanderbilt University in 1978. From 1974 to 1977, Jones conducted his PhD research at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), and post-doctoral research at Cornell University and the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility.

Research interests

Jones conducted research at the Idaho National Laboratory, in Idaho Falls, Idaho where, from 1979 to 1985, he was a senior engineering specialist. He was principal investigator for experimental muon-catalyzed fusion from 1982 to 1991 for the United States Department of Energy (DOE), Division of Advanced Energy Projects. From 1985 to 1993, Jones studied deuterium-based fusion in the context of condensed matter physics under DOE and Electric Power Research Institute sponsorship. Jones also collaborated in experiments at other physics laboratories, including TRIUMF (Vancouver, British Columbia), LANL (Los Alamos, NM), KEK (Tsukuba, Japan), and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford University.

Around 1985, Jones became interested in anomalous concentrations of helium-3 and tritium found in gases escaping from volcanoes. He hypothesized that metals and high pressures in the Earth's interior might make fusion more likely, and began a series of experiments on what he referred to as geo-fusion, or piezofusion, high-pressure fusion. To characterize the reactions, Jones claimed to have designed and constructed a neutron counter that was capable of accurately measuring minuscule numbers of neutrons produced in his experiments. The counter indicated that a small amount of fusion was occurring, according to Jones, but that it was likely not useful energy production.

Jones' interests extend to archaeometry, solar energy, and, like numerous professors at BYU, archaeology and the Book of Mormon. He has interpreted archaeological evidence from the ancient Mayans as supporting his faith's belief that Jesus Christ (when resurrected) visited America. Jones is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and has been described as "a devout Mormon." In 2016-17, he and his wife served as full-time Senior Missionaries in the New Jersey Morristown Mission of the Church.

Muon-catalyzed fusion

In the mid-1980s, Jones and other BYU scientists worked on what he referred to as Cold Nuclear Fusion in a Scientific American article (the process is currently known as muon-catalyzed fusion to avoid confusion with the cold fusion concept proposed by the University of Utah's Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann). Muon-catalyzed fusion was a field of some interest during the 1980s as a potential energy source; however, its low energy output appears to be unavoidable (because of alpha-muon sticking losses). Jones led a research team that, in 1986, achieved 150 fusions per muon (average), releasing over 2,600 MeV of fusion energy per muon, a record which still stands.

Pons and Fleischmann commenced their work at approximately the same time. Jones became aware of their work when they applied for research funding from the DOE, after which the DOE forwarded their proposal to Jones for peer review. When Jones realized that their work was similar, he and Pons and Fleischmann agreed to release their papers to Nature on the same day (March 24, 1989). However, Pons and Fleischmann announced their results at a press event the day before Jones faxed his paper to Nature.

According to a New York Times report, although peer reviewers were harshly critical of Pons' and Fleischmann's research, they did not apply such criticism to Jones' significantly more modest, theoretically supported findings. Critics insisted that Jones' results were probably caused by experimental error; the majority of the reviewing physicists claimed that he was a careful scientist. Later research and experiments have supported Jones' metallic "cold fusion" (geo-fusion) reports.

In July 2013, Jones gave a poster talk at the 18th International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science at the University of Missouri, titled, "Empirical Evidence for Two Distinct Effects: Low-level d-d Fusion in Metals and Anomalous Excess Heat."

9/11 conspiracy theories

World Trade Center destruction paper and response

On September 22, 2005, at a BYU seminar attended by around 60 people, Jones publicly presented his views regarding the 2001 collapse of the World Trade Center towers and World Trade Center 7 during the September 11 attacks. Jones noted he believed it was more likely a controlled demolition, using thermite, referencing the speed and symmetry of the collapses, and characteristics of dust jets. Later, Jones said he had identified grey-red flakes found in the dust as nanothermite traces and that the thermite reaction products (aluminium oxide and iron-rich microspheres) were also found in the dust. Shortly after the seminar, Jones placed a research paper entitled "Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse?" on his page in the Physics department Web site, commenting that BYU had no responsibility for the paper.

The paper was self-published in the online Journal of 9/11 Studies, a journal co-founded and co-edited by Jones. It also appeared in a volume of essays, 9/11 and American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out, edited by David Ray Griffin and Peter Dale Scott. It was controversial both for its content and its claims to scientific rigor. Jones' early critics included members of BYU's engineering faculty; shortly after he made his views public, the BYU College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences and the faculty of structural engineering issued statements in which they distanced themselves from Jones' work. They noted that Jones' "hypotheses and interpretations of evidence were being questioned by scholars and practitioners," and expressed doubts on whether they had been "submitted to relevant scientific venues that would ensure rigorous technical peer review."

Over the following year, Jones presented his WTC research in lectures at Idaho State University, Utah Valley State College, University of Colorado at Boulder and University of Denver, University of California at Berkeley and Davis, and the University of Texas at Austin.

Retirement from BYU

On September 7, 2006, Jones removed his paper from BYU's website at the request of administrators and was placed on paid leave. The university cited its concern about the "increasingly speculative and accusatory nature" of Jones' work and that perhaps Jones' research had "not been published in appropriate scientific venues" as reasons for putting him under review. Six weeks later he chose to retire, and the review was not pursued further.

Some of Jones' colleagues also defended Jones' 9/11 work, and Project Censored listed his 9/11 research among the top mainstream media censored stories of 2007. His placement on paid leave drew criticism from the American Association of University Professors and the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. Both organizations have long been critics of BYU's record on academic freedom.

Subsequent papers

Jones was later interviewed by mainstream news sources and made public appearances. He urged caution in drawing conclusions. His name was often mentioned in reporting about 9/11 conspiracy theories.

In August 2008, Jones, along with Kevin Ryan and James Gourley, published a peer-reviewed article in The Environmentalist, titled, 'Environmental anomalies at the World Trade Center: Evidence for energetic materials'.

In April 2009, Jones co-authored a paper in The Open Chemical Physics Journal, titled, 'Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe'. The editor of the journal, Professor Marie-Paule Pileni, an expert in explosives and nano-technology, resigned. She received an e-mail from the Danish science journal Videnskab asking for her professional assessment of the article's content. According to Pileni, the article was published without her authorization. Subsequently, numerous concerns arose regarding the reliability of the publisher, Bentham Science Publishers. This included the publishing an allegedly peer reviewed article generated by SCIgen (although this program has also successfully submitted papers to IEEE and Springer), the resignation of multiple people at the administrative level, and soliciting article submissions from researchers in unrelated fields through spam.

Europhysics News, in August 2016, published a feature "15 Years Later: On the Physics of High-rise Building Collapses," which strongly challenges the official U.S. Government (NIST) narrative of the collapse of WTC7 and the WTC Towers, including a disclaimer about the speculative and not peer reviewed status of the article. The paper was authored by Steven Jones, Robert Korol, Anthony Szamboti and Ted Walter.

Scholars, Architects, and Engineers for 9/11 Truth

In December 2005, Jones was a founding member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth. In 2006, most of its members left that organization to establish Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice. Also in 2006, Jones became a founding member of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, and an editor of the Journal of 9/11 Studies.

Recognition and awards

  • 1968, David O. McKay Scholarship at BYU; National Merit Scholar
  • 1973–1978 Tuition Scholarship and Research Fellowship at Vanderbilt University
  • 1989 Outstanding Young Scholar Award (BYU); Best of What's New for 1989 (Popular Science); Creativity Prize (Japanese Creativity Society)
  • 1990 BYU Young Scholar Award; Annual Lecturer, BYU Chapter of Sigma Xi
  • 2005 BYU Alcuin Award and Fellowship, for excellence in teaching

References

  1. ^ "CURRICULUM VITAE". www.physics.byu.edu. Archived from the original on April 5, 2013. Retrieved April 16, 2018.
  2. Steven E Jones & Johann Rafelski, AIP Conference Proceedings, 181: Muon-catalyzed Fusion: Sanibel Island, FL 1988 (New York: American Institute of Physics, 1989).
  3. George L Trigg, ed, Encyclopedia of Applied Physics, Volume 14: Physical Geology to Polymer Dynamics (New York: VCH Publishers, 1996), p 112: "Dr. Steven Jones of Brigham Young University, who had long studied muon-catalyzed fusion...".
  4. Thomas F Gieryn, Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the Line (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), pp 198–99, 214-215, 223.
  5. Stephen E Atkins, "Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice" pp 385–87, in S E Atkins, ed, The 9/11 Encyclopedia, 2nd edn (Santa Barbara CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011).
  6. ^ Anthony Summers & Robbyn Swan, The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 (New York: Ballantine Books, 2011), p 99.
  7. Peter Phillips & Mickey Huff w/ Project Censored, eds, Media Democracy in Action: Censored 2010: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2008-09 (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2009), "Censored 2007 #18", pp 140–41.
  8. ^ Walch, Tad (October 21, 2006). "BYU professor in dispute over 9/11 will retire: Jones had been placed on leave 6 weeks ago". Deseret Morning News. Archived from the original on November 3, 2006. Retrieved September 4, 2007.
  9. ^ Jones, Steven (August 24, 2016). "15 years later: on the physics of high-rise building collapses" (PDF). Europhysics News. 47 (4): 21–26. Bibcode:2016ENews..47d..21J. doi:10.1051/epn/2016402. Retrieved September 16, 2016.
  10. "Steven E. Jones' biography at BYU". Retrieved August 3, 2006.
  11. "The Solar Funnel Cooker". Archived from the original on January 11, 2007. Retrieved November 28, 2006.
  12. For the relationship between BYU and Mormon apologetics scholarship see generally John-Charles Duffy. "Defending the Kingdom, Rethinking the Faith: How Apologetics Is Reshaping Mormon Orthodoxy." Sunstone, May 2004, 22-55.
  13. "Behold My Hands: Evidence for Christ's Visit in Ancient America, by Steven Jones". Archived from the original on May 10, 2017. Retrieved June 1, 2016., article claiming evidence that Jesus Christ visited the Americas (also here)
  14. ^ Gravois, John (June 23, 2006). "Professors of Paranoia?". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Vol. 52, no. 42. p. A.10. Retrieved September 14, 2016. Soon after Mr. Jones posted his paper online, the physics department at Brigham Young moved to distance itself from his work. The department released a statement saying that it was 'not convinced that his analyses and hypotheses have been submitted to relevant scientific venues that would ensure rigorous technical peer review.'
  15. https://www.facebook.com/NewJerseyMorristownMission/reviews
  16. Jones, Steven Earl (1986). "Muon-catalysed fusion revisited". Nature. 321 (6066): 127–133. Bibcode:1986Natur.321..127J. doi:10.1038/321127a0. ISSN 0028-0836. S2CID 39819102.
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