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Revision as of 16:25, 27 January 2006 by Morton devonshire (talk | contribs) (→Audio link)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Jim Hoffman is a software engineer and a 9/11 researcher. Since early 2003, Hoffman has been actively researching the collapse of the World Trade Center (WTC) and other aspects of the September 11, 2001 attacks. He is also the co-author, with Don Paul, of Waking up from our Nightmare: The 9/11 Crimes in New York City ISBN 9430960512.
Hoffman's work has been a source of inspiration for the analysis of physicist Dr. Steven E. Jones. Hoffman's book and websites, 911-Research and wtc7.net are frequently cited in Jones' essay Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse?. Hoffman is also widely cited by researcher and author David Ray Griffin.
In order to more easily research the many complex details of the September 11th attacks, Hoffman put together a collection of original hypertext pages of information. By developing a software tool for creating hierarchies of web pages, with references linking to source documents, he was able to quickly navigate to any of its many pages. Originally developed as a research tool, the system later evolved into the 911-Research website.
Jim Hoffman has also worked in applying scientific visualization to mathematics, which was instrumental in the discovery of the first new examples of complete, embedded minimal surfaces in over one hundred years. As described by Stewart Dickson in an article on scientific visualization:
- "By the 1890's the study of minimal surfaces was thought to be exhausted — no new surfaces could be described mathematically which were non-self-intersecting (embedded) in three-space and which had vanishing mean curvature. However, in 1983 a graduate student in Rio de Janeiro named Celsoe Costa wrote down an equation for what he thought might be a new minimal surface, but the equations were so complex that they obscured the underlying geometry. David Hoffman at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst enlisted James Hoffman to make computer-generated pictures of Costa's surface. The pictures they made suggested, first, that the surface was probably embedded— which gave them definite clues as to the approach they should take toward proving this assertion mathematically— and, second, that the surface contained straight lines, hence symmetry by reflection through the lines."
Hoffman's work has been featured in articles in Science News, Scientific American, Science Digest , and Nature. He discovered new, three-dimensional morphologies for modeling block co-polymers used in nanotechnology, and co-authored papers in Science and Macromolecules. He collaborated in the development of new inventions in combustion engineering, and is co-author of a patent for an internal combustion engine with increased thermal efficiency (US Patent #4,584,972).
References
- See About 9-11 Research
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See also
- David Ray Griffin
- Steven E. Jones
- Researchers questioning the official account of 9/11
- 9/11 Truth Movement
- 9/11 conspiracy theories
External links
- wtc7.net - 'wtc7.net - The unexplained collapse of Building 7'
- 911research.wtc7.net - '9-11 Research: An Attempt to Uncover the Truth About September 11th, 2001'
- 911review.com - '9-11 Review: A Resource for Understanding the 9/11/01 Attack'
Audio link
- SueSupriano.com - 'Don Paul - Jim Hoffman', interviewed by Sue Supriano (November 3 2003)