Slide #13 - Explosions

How Useful Are Frozen Pictures of Explosions?

They can be very useful when you don't want people to recognize a key feature of explosions - the track of debris flying up.

In this slide, the picture in the lower right will soon become Gage's "star witness". You will see it again as he shows you images of the WTC tower collapses. Those collapses will appear to mimic this picture, with debris appearing to arc up out of the collapses.

But if you watch the WTC tower collapses carefully, you will see that debris only goes out and down, not up. What then happens is that the building itself falls away from where the debris left it, trailing the smoke and dust behind it. That is what makes the arc in the smoke and dust.

An explosion is not hurling debris up out of the WTC towers. The debris is falling out and down, and the building is then falling away from that point.

This is not how an explosion acts. This is how falling debris acts when it has ricocheted off something below.

This is one of the more subtle deceptions you will find in Gage's presentation. I would love to be able to say that Gage has fooled himself here. Many others have by simply looking at still shots of explosions and comparing them to images of the WTC collapses. It is not easy to see unless you're looking for it.

But fooled or not, Gage is presenting a deception here. And either way, that makes him an untrustworthy guide into these matters.

(By the way, this particular argument doesn't apply to Building 7. This type of phenomenon doesn't appear in its collapse. Gage does think he sees some explosive charges there, but we will deal with that in its proper place.)

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