9/11 Debate

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The numbers you are using is what i'm referring too.

What you described is also mentioned as being INNACURATE in the initial report.

It has to do with your 10m.

It, wrongly, assumes a free fall at that point. For the acceleration to be 9.81, means the collapse, and everything above it, happened instantly. It simply could not. The only way that is even remotely possible is through a controlled detonation.

So, back to the drawing board.....

No not all all.

You know the math can't lie, you could halve all the figures from the actual and the resulting energies are still way beyond anything a building could resist. That is how back of the envelope calculations like this work, you don't end up an order of magnitude out.

For example; Looking 1/2 Mass(5% of WTC 1 or 2), 1/2 Gravity(reduced acceleration), 1/2 fall height
E = 22,500,000 x 4.9 x 5
E = 551,250,000 Newtons

F = E/g
F = 551,250,000 / 9.8
F = 56,250,000kg

Nothing we build today can withstand even that, it's at least an order of magnitude too high for any building to withstand and transmit that energy down through the structure to the foundations like a shockwave.

For comparative reference, the recent Beirut fertilizer blast was about 1/10th the collapse energy of just one WTC.

Ockham's Razor at work, I think I've read that somewhere before!