13-05-2011, 06:50 PM
(This post was last modified: 15-05-2011, 07:00 PM by Jeffrey Orling.)
Attempts to explain the collapse do not defy physics. The forces which brought them down was gravity which acts on all mass on the planet. The PE .. ie the ability to do work with that PE is related to the height the descends from until it encounters resistance.
I've listened personally to Gage several times declaring that the "speed" of collapse was close to free fall and "not possible" without explosives.... I suppose the explosives are driving the mass downward???
Also free fall is not a speed... it is a rate of acceleration. Nothing special about it either... it's just a number. Free falling objects without any additional impulse downward will accelerate at free fall rate less the resistance of air... for example. A freely falling object reaches a VELOCITY or SPEED of about 60+mph in about 3 seconds... after a second a free falling object is moving at a whopping 5 mph...
The videos show nothing explosively ejected aside from aluminum panels which "sprung" off the facade. One cannot read velocity from a still photo. If you drop a pile of sand and gravel it bounces up and way from where it is poured. Why would the debris descending in the towers collapse not be disbursed outward? You don't expect it to neatly stack up in a 208' square?
The contents were mostly crushed in the collapsed... some disbursed in the air ... the steel came straight down or tipped over... all of it... with the exception of some beams on the mech floors which might have been sprung away.
All three towers came down by gravity... and all three left similar debris patterns... except that the facade of the twins was structural, panelized and fell away while at WTC 7 the facade collapse in after the descending core and floors dropped first and pulled them down. The floor connection to the facade at the twins were not robust enough to pull the facade in... those connections severed or failed and the facade panels and the core were "left behind" for a period before they buckled and or toppled over.
If you don't know your engineering and physics your observations are ill informed.
I've listened personally to Gage several times declaring that the "speed" of collapse was close to free fall and "not possible" without explosives.... I suppose the explosives are driving the mass downward???
Also free fall is not a speed... it is a rate of acceleration. Nothing special about it either... it's just a number. Free falling objects without any additional impulse downward will accelerate at free fall rate less the resistance of air... for example. A freely falling object reaches a VELOCITY or SPEED of about 60+mph in about 3 seconds... after a second a free falling object is moving at a whopping 5 mph...
The videos show nothing explosively ejected aside from aluminum panels which "sprung" off the facade. One cannot read velocity from a still photo. If you drop a pile of sand and gravel it bounces up and way from where it is poured. Why would the debris descending in the towers collapse not be disbursed outward? You don't expect it to neatly stack up in a 208' square?
The contents were mostly crushed in the collapsed... some disbursed in the air ... the steel came straight down or tipped over... all of it... with the exception of some beams on the mech floors which might have been sprung away.
All three towers came down by gravity... and all three left similar debris patterns... except that the facade of the twins was structural, panelized and fell away while at WTC 7 the facade collapse in after the descending core and floors dropped first and pulled them down. The floor connection to the facade at the twins were not robust enough to pull the facade in... those connections severed or failed and the facade panels and the core were "left behind" for a period before they buckled and or toppled over.
If you don't know your engineering and physics your observations are ill informed.