Your right, I don't know Jack about algebra, and what not, But I don't' have to know jack. We live in the age of the inter web. All I have to do is find out want units of force are used, the quantity of force, and what formula is need to complete the equation, and I can plug it into one of the thousands of conversion and/or scientific calculators online. Plenty of formulas, and algorithms are on the web for dynamic forces, constructial loads, stress points, and even force needed to pulverize a material. All I need is a basic understanding, and the ability to press 'enter' after I put the numbers in the calculator.
The rest is semantics.
Consider the following: if the pancaking effect caused the total building failure, why is it that no video of either of the WTC collapses shows any sign of stutter between floor collapses, which should have been very apparent especially in the first few floors of collapse when the speed of gravitational collapse was small? Consider also that apologists for the official conspiracy theory propose that 30% of the gravitational collapse energy was necessary to create the pyroclastic cloud of debris: that is, in their own analysis, this energy came out of the gravitational energy. This means that the time of fall would have been slowed further than what was observed. When a body of mass m falls from a height h, acted upon by gravitational acceleration g, it converts its potential energy PE = m x g x h into kinetic energy KE = (1/2) x m x v2. Here h = (1/2) x g x t2, t = time of fall, and v = g x t, where v = velocity. Removal of 30% of the PE to pulverize concrete essentially reduces the amount of energy available from falling, effectively reducing the gravitational acceleration to something less than g.
Substituting, in the above equations we have (1.0 - 0.3) x PE = 0.7 x PE = m x G x h, where PE, m and h are as before and G = the effective gravitational acceleration. Hence, comparing terms for PE, G = 0.7 x g. The time of collapse under G will also increase. If we let the effective collapse time be T, then comparing terms for constant h,
(1/2) x g x t2 = (1/2) x G x T2 = (1/2) x 0.7 x g x T2.
Hence, t2 = 0.7 x T2, or (t/T) = (0.7)1/2 = 0.837. Or, T = 1.195 t.
(Wow!!, Pretty amazing what a redneck idiot can come up with, with the right tools form the internet.
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Now the observed time t = 10 seconds (a free fall time, the fastest possible time under g = 9.8 m/sec2 = 32 ft/sec2 = 32 ft/s2). For the cloud debris creation to absorb 30% of the gravitational energy, the observed time of fall would be 10s x 1.195, or almost 12 seconds. This long a collapse time was observed by no one. Clearly, there are serious flaws in the official explanation.
The official media/government theorists may propose a figure of 30%, but Jim Hoffman (October 16th, 2003) actually calculates that:
- 111,000 KWH is generated by the collapse of each tower (mass = 1.97 x 1011 grams falling average of 207 meters)
- 135,000 KWH is needed to crush the concrete (9 x 1010 grams to 60 micron powder)
- 2,682,000 KWH is needed to create the dust cloud (this assumes a sufficient source of water or this figure increases dramatically)
which means that 122% of the gravitational collapse energy was necessary just to pulverize the concrete (let alone create the dust cloud), that is, more energy was needed just to pulverize the concrete than was generated by the collapse.
SO again: WHERE DID ALL THIS ENERGY COME FROM SINCE THE FALLING FLOORS DID NOT PRODUCE IT?
We still go back to my original argument also:
The core was designed to support the entire weight of the buildings several times over. Far more than a mere "service core", it comprised of 47 steel box columns tied together at each floor by steel plates, similar to the 52" deep spandrel plates that tied the perimeter columns together. The largest of these core columns were 18"x36", with steel walls 4" thick near the base and tapering in thickness toward the top, and was anchored directly to the bedrock.
The outer box, measuring 208 feet by 208 feet (63x63 m), was made up of 14-inch (36-cm) wide steel columns, 59 per building face, spaced just over 3 feet (1 m) apart. On every floor above the plaza level, the spaces between the columns housed 22-inch (56-cm) windows. The columns were covered with aluminum, giving the towers a distinctive silver color. The inner box at the core of each tower measured about 135 feet by 85 feet (41x26 m). Its 47 heavy steel columns surrounded a large open area housing elevators, stairwells and restrooms.
No consideration is given to how much energy (force) is dissipated in the destruction of an object. I have heard statements that over 4.1 billion joules OR 3,319,073,609 pound-force/foot² = 23,049,122 psi of energy would have built up from the falling structure before it hit the building underneath it. That means it would only take an affected are of 434.89 Sq. inches in the 53,000 psi rated center Colum to absorb that impact.
We see that the inner column ALONE was 135 feet by 85 feet and contained 47, 53,000 psi rated steel beams. So.... how many Sq inches do you think are in that column? It only would need 434.89 to stop the falling floors dead.
Where did the massive force needed
to destroy this building come from?
