You're mistaken, that's why. It's impossible because the energy of pulverizing concrete and projecting steel beams outward requires energy, the ONLY energy available is 9.8m/s^2. That 500k tons had to crush through ~1500k tons, and it did so using only about 2m/s^2 of that energy.
If there was a 'pancake collapse' you have a collision of 2 floors, then the floor breaks, drops, then collide with the next, break, drop, collide, break, drop. That would appear on video in a noticeable and measureable feature of collapse.
Then the simulations, the simulations were garbage, they didn't go from start to end because they ALL diverge from the video, the worst was WTC 7, where the simulation couldn't even get to 7 seconds before being noticeably different from the video.
you're just assuming the methodology inside the cascade, most of the energy going into the system was stored there when it was built... when all that mass was hauled up there. gravity is pulling it down and as it gains speed it requires more and more force to stop it.
catch a tennis ball, now catch an anvil.
when a floor fails, it doesn't turn into powder, there is pretensioned crete that snap and go flying... and gravity itself helping to rip everything apart. it's not JUST the weight of the building slamming into a solid static objecct... it's hitting mostly air all the way down. there is not nearly as much resistance as you are thinking because you are mistakenly assuming the lower part was built from solid granite.
Respectfully, you're wrong. This is, in essence, the NIST position that once the collapse process started it could not be stopped.
Yes, the structure is mostly air, but as seen in the video, the concrete was pulverized and debris projected outward. That is in all videos, undeniable.
I would urge you to do a frame by frame analysis of any of the videos of the collapse. There isn't the reactions to collisions that this explanation requires.
You're mistaken, that's why. It's impossible because the energy of pulverizing concrete and projecting steel beams outward requires energy, the ONLY energy available is 9.8m/s^2. That 500k tons had to crush through ~1500k tons, and it did so using only about 2m/s^2 of that energy.
If there was a 'pancake collapse' you have a collision of 2 floors, then the floor breaks, drops, then collide with the next, break, drop, collide, break, drop. That would appear on video in a noticeable and measureable feature of collapse.
Then the simulations, the simulations were garbage, they didn't go from start to end because they ALL diverge from the video, the worst was WTC 7, where the simulation couldn't even get to 7 seconds before being noticeably different from the video.
you're just assuming the methodology inside the cascade, most of the energy going into the system was stored there when it was built... when all that mass was hauled up there. gravity is pulling it down and as it gains speed it requires more and more force to stop it.
catch a tennis ball, now catch an anvil.
when a floor fails, it doesn't turn into powder, there is pretensioned crete that snap and go flying... and gravity itself helping to rip everything apart. it's not JUST the weight of the building slamming into a solid static objecct... it's hitting mostly air all the way down. there is not nearly as much resistance as you are thinking because you are mistakenly assuming the lower part was built from solid granite.
Respectfully, you're wrong. This is, in essence, the NIST position that once the collapse process started it could not be stopped.
Yes, the structure is mostly air, but as seen in the video, the concrete was pulverized and debris projected outward. That is in all videos, undeniable.
I would urge you to do a frame by frame analysis of any of the videos of the collapse. There isn't the reactions to collisions that this explanation requires.
the majority of that dust cloud wasn't concrete, it's drywall.
and ask a demolitions expert what happens to pretensioned concrete when you bust into it.
it's one of the most dangerous things on the job site, kills people all the time.
Wow... You're really grasping for anything right now. I bet you don't even understand why that hurts your argument.