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Please watch this lecture when you have the time.
Didn't watch the whole clip but I do know this "High School Physics" teacher claim about WTC 7 being free fall, and his claim "Naturally Collapsed structure cannot crash at a free fall speed" is actually been debunked by physics and engineer community.
Following is an explanation from an Engineer.
Even when explosives are used to bring down a building, they’re only used to begin the movement of the building. Best practice is to use the absolute minimum amount required to move part of the building, and when that part impacts the rest of the structure it will overload it and cause massive failures throughout. Stress waves can move through a solid material at the speed of sound, so in very high shock loads a lot of structural members can be crushed or buckled throughout the structure very rapidly.
Effectively if the overload is high enough (which it will be) floors lower down (and higher up) can fail ahead of the falling debris, meaning the collapse isn’t significantly impeded on the way down. Some of the kinetic energy of the fall will be absorbed by the structure, but once enough mass is on the move it can be a very uneven struggle. In cases like the WTC you have huge mass descending, so you’d expect the lower floors to put up minimal resistance.
Bottom line, falling buildings tend to fall at the same sort of speeds whether explosives are used or not. You can use explosives to initiate a collapse, but they’re not required to make one collapse quickly, in fact doing so would be extremely difficult, could in no way shape or form be concealed and usually wouldn’t make much difference. It would require massive and extensive preparation and miles of very obvious det cord connecting a large number of individual charges. Not a realistic suggestion.
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