9/11 Free Fall 7/18/13: Dr. deHaven-Smith and "conspiracy theory"

[William Seger]

87. You're overlooking something simple

It's no surprise that you aren't actually interested enough to even read Bazant's responses to Gourley:

2. Are the Internal Forces in Upper and Lower Parts of Tower Equal?

Contrary to the discusser’s claim which is based on his understanding of Newton’s third law, these forces are not equal, as made clear by Fig. 2 (g and h) of the original paper. Their difference is equal to the weight of the intermediate compacted layer B plus the inertia force attributable to the acceleration of layer B (for additional accuracy, one may also add the energy per unit height needed for the comminution of concrete and the expelling of air, which are secondary phenomena not taken into consideration in the original paper). When the compacted layer attains a sufficient mass, which occurs after the collapse of only a few stories, this difference becomes very large.

(Bolding added so you can't miss it. Don't bother responding if you're not going to address that.)

You're pretending to have X-ray vision to see what's happening inside the cloud of smoke and dust, which is amusing, but "crush down/crush up" can actually be seen in Verinage demolitions:

So Bazant's theory about that is certainly not "ludicrous" (and being called that by someone who thinks the core floors would prevent column buckling is truly ludicrous), but all of the hoopla over "crush down/crush up" is nothing but irrelevant noise, anyway. It's a desperate but futile attempt by "truthers" to avoid the significant point of Bazant's analysis: There was much more energy unleashed than the structure could absorb, so once the collapse started the building was doomed. Richard Gage wouldn't need any huge budget to disprove that if it weren't true, but the reason his "2,090 architects and engineers" haven't done so is not a lack of money but a lack of scientific facts.

How you can put on such a pretense of being an objective seeker of truth but then think your ignorant opinions are more valid than expert analysis is beyond me.