About Jim Hoffman

I have been intensively researching the attack of 9/11/01 and educating others about my findings for the past three years. I created WTC7.net and 911Review.com, and am best known for my development of the 9-11 Research website, 911Research.WTC7.net. The focus of my work has been to disprove the official account that the total collapses of the Twin Towers and Building 7 were the result of the plane crashes and fires. While I address a broad spectrum of 9/11 issues in the websites, my talks and interviews focus on what I believe to be the core of the crime: the explosive demolition of the Twin Towers.

Professional Background

A software engineer by profession, I have developed new algorithms and applications in computational geometry used in both pure mathematics and polymer chemistry. My work in applying scientific visualization to minimal surface geometry was instrumental in the discovery of the first new examples of complete, finite, embedded minimal surfaces in over two hundred years. My visualizations have been featured in articles in Science News, Scientific American, Science Digest, and Nature.

Working with a team of polymer scientists at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology, I discovered new three-dimensional morphologies for modeling block co-polymers, and co-authored papers in Science and Macromolecules.

I have also dabbled in combustion engineering, co-authoring a patent for an internal combustion engine with improved thermal efficiency (US Patent #4,584,972). I created computer simulations to facilitate the development of this and other mechanical engineering inventions.

My experience in software development has proved valuable to my investigation of 9/11/01 in more ways than just teaching me to think outside of the box and to approach problems with scientific rigor: I created the system used to publish the websites I developed. The system creates pages with hierarchical menus that allow navigation to most pages in the site in just two clicks.

9/11/2001 Attack Research History

Like so many people I watched the attack unfold on TV, tuning in shortly before the South Tower exploded. Although aspects of the attack suggested to me the involvement of insiders -- such as the timing of the attack's installments and apparent design to minimize casualties that I subsequently noted here, I did not question what I now consider the core of the Big Lie -- the story that the Towers "collapsed" from the impacts and fires.

Then, in March of 2003, I began looking at photographs of the events for the first time since September, 2001, and read the article Muslims Suspend Laws of Physics. Suddenly it became obvious to me that the Towers did not merely collapse, they were systematically demolished. I immediately began development of the prototype for the 9-11 Research website, initially as a way of documenting my own research. I began publishing the website in the middle of 2003, and the site evolved into the comprehensive and popular website that it is today. I owe many thanks to the generous assistance of my colleague Gregg Roberts in correcting many errors in that and the other websites.

In addition to updating and refining my analysis of the evolving official story, such as critiquing NIST's Report on the Twin Towers, I have been working to improve the quality of work associated with the 9/11 Truth community through constructive criticism in a series of essays and analysis of specific claims found in the 9/11 skeptics' literature. Meanwhile, I have been honing my analysis of the destruction of the Twin Towers, recently collaborating with Don Paul to create the video 9/11 Guilt: The Proof is in Your Hands, reviewed in the UCDAdvocate.com. In late 2006, I helped to organize the Lifting the Fog Conference, which focused on applying the scientific method to questions surrounding the destruction of the World Trade Center.