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.
lol, oh i bet i do know exactly what i'm talking about... it's not water barrels on freeway divide stopping a car from impacting a guardrail.
pretensioned cables are pulled so tight before the concrete pours that when it does break there is so much stored energy inside that those cables throw massive chunks of concrete flying into other buildings and sometimes people.
when the building is failing you have all that stored energy being released... but not because the building had to overcome the resistance of the stored energy to move it.
think of it like a mousetrap... a light touch releases all that stored energy... adding energy to the system/reaction. like pulling the trigger on a gun.
it actually proves my point because each snapped cable was dumping energy into the collapse as it happened, helping it, not slowing it down.
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.
lol, oh i bet i do know exactly what i'm talking about... it's not water barrels on freeway divide stopping a car from impacting a guardrail.
pretensioned cables are pulled so tight before the concrete pours that when it does break there is so much stored energy inside that those cables throw massive chunks of concrete flying into other buildings and sometimes people.
when the building is failing you have all that stored energy being released... but not because the building had to overcome the resistance of the stored energy to move it.
think of it like a mousetrap... a light touch releases all that stored energy... adding energy to the system/reaction. like pulling the trigger on a gun.
it actually proves my point because each snapped cable was dumping energy into the collapse as it happened, helping it, not slowing it down.