Was the destruction of the twin towers scientifically possible on 9/11

randman writes

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The more interesting conspiracy theories relate to microwave weaponry.

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Speaking of microwave weaponry, in WW2 while the Americans were island hopping their way to Japan, the Japanese military was working on a real world "death ray". Their goal was to be able to aim their "death ray" at an American warships and literally cook American sailors on those ships. They ran into a really big problem, though. In order for microwave technology to send out that strong of a microwave at such distances on the high seas they needed a power source that was way beyond what the 1940s had to offer.But now that we're in the 21st Century...

randman writes

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These types of weapons have definitely been developed and deployed though the media reports mention it's more for non-lethal crowd control.

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You're thinking of using soundwaves as crowd control, not microwave. The military currently have several such devices that would produce sound that is just right below the upper critical thresthold of the human ear. They don't really do permanent damage to your ears (hopefully at least) but they do annoy the hell out of you, though.Microwave is an entirely different beast. It literally vibrates the water molecules in your body and cook you from inside out. The downside to this is in order to make this into any kind of practical weapon they need a power source that is far more powerful and compact than what they currently have.This is true for lazer weapons as well. The military has possessed star wars style lazer weapons for a very long time now, over a decade at least. They can literally target and shoot down artillery shells and short range missiles with these lazer canons. You can't actually see the lazer itself because it's in the infrared part of the spectrum. But the biggest problem they ran into and haven't been able to solve is the power source. Especially when they want to make their weapon mobile, each lazer canon would have to pull with it a whole power station for just one shot. That's extremely impractical.

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What's scarier are the reports of scalar weapons (Tesla-type technology).

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Again, these kinds of weapons work just fine in short range, like a few feet away. Any such weapon for practical military purposes that could strike a target at a reasonable distance away requires ridiculously high yield power source that is also impractically compact. This is why our military still mainly uses projectile weaponry and rocket propelled missile.