Kaolian, according to Professor Jones the peer review included both a physicist and an engineer.
"My paper was peer-reviewed and accepted for publication before being made available on the Web with the editor's approval," Jones said. "The reviewers included a physicist and an engineer, I now understand. The review has not been shown to have been inappropriate and I believe it was appropriate."
Jophiel wrote:
According to Popular Mechanics, the melting point of structural steel is ~2750F. So we have photographic evidence from an unbiased source (an aluminum foundry) that aluminum turns red hot -- literally -- at half the temperature it takes for structural steel to turn into a molten glob.
Joph, all metals turn the same color at the same temperature
(link) with the exception of aluminum, as described by Jones in his original paper on 9/11 -
"The approximate temperature of a hot metal is given by its color, quite independent of the composition of the metal. (A notable exception is aluminum, which due to low emissivity and high reflectivity appears silvery-gray in daylight conditions, at all temperatures whether in solid or liquid forms. Aluminum does incandesce like other metals, but faintly, so that in broad daylight conditions in air, it appears silvery-gray according to experiments done at BYU. [Jones, 2006])"
Additionally, the NIST report (from which the aluminum theory originates) sugests that the aluminum was around 650 degrees celsius, which isn't supported by the evidence because in the video the molten material was yellow to orange in color... whereas it would have to be deep red at 650 celsius.
Other important things to take into consideration is the molten metal found in the rubble at ground zero which can be seen to hold it's form at orange hot temperatures. Then of course there's the sample of the metalic residue that Jones tested which is primarily made up of iron along with sulpher, potasium, and manganese which are by-products of thermate.
Picture of molten metal at ground zero. Footage of thermite. Edited, Jul 11th 2006 at 12:46am EDT by Dronadesh