Was There Satan's Face in the World Trade Center Fire? A Geometric Analysis

Authors

Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Dima Iourinski

Publication Date

1-2002

Comments

UTEP-CS-02-03.

Published in Geombinatorics,, 2002, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 69-75.

Abstract

Some photos of the 2001 World Trade Center fire reveal a "face" in the smoke which was interpreted, by some people, as the face of Satan. Most journalists believe, however, that the visible smoke configuration can be explained by natural processes, and that the visible "face" is similar to animal shapes that are sometimes observed in the clouds. In this paper, we present a simple geometric analysis that supports this natural-process explanation.