It's a no-brainer. Did it ever occur to you that these professionals can recognize molten steel when they see it? Do you really think they don't know what they are talking about? Get serious.
Yep, I'd say that without a shadow of a doubt. It is almost impossible to tell unless you have huge amounts of experience and work daily with various metals at high temperature. These people are professionals and experts in their field,
but that does not mean they have a magic ability to know what liquid steel looks like as opposed to any other liquid metal at high temperature.
I'm a qualified metallurgist FFS and I've already stated that I would find it hard to do. Infact there was a thread with pictures of different metals at different temperatures and I couldn't get them all. Most people, and that includes engineers, never see liquid steel or any other liquid metal whilst doing their jobs.
How do you know something is steel by looking at it without experience? You can't (unless you have further information). This is why I'd defer to someone like WhiteLion who does have the knowledge, because they work with liquid metals on a daily basis.
They will have more knowledge than you or I, so why do you dismiss them off-hand? Oh that's right, it doesn't confirm with your uneducated, ignorant and deluded theory.
Molten is a word that people use to describe very hot or an intense orange colour. People will say molten lava, molten glass, molten metal, molten plastic to describe what they see, but they don't always mean liquid. It's not hard to see and I've provided examples.
Why can't you see this?
Your theory is based on nothing but your willingness to scream inside job, believe a charlatan and a fraud called Jones, shout, "thermite melts steel!" without any thought as to how, how much or how it managed to survive the collapse as a liquid and continue as a liquid for 6 weeks.
If you took 5 minutes to analyse your theory you'd see that there are huge gaping holes.
Why don't you look critically at what you are proposing? Why don't you look as critically at Jones' work as you criticise people here? Unless you state your experience and qualifications why should any one take you seriously when you show make these claims without backing them up?
I've bolded the questions to highlight them for C7 - he's not too good at answering questions. Will we get straight answers or nonsense like "denial tactic"? - I'm not taking bets. Common C7 surprise me.