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Originally Posted by kandah
If you had a physics degree Colin and where not in total denial you should be teaching us, not the other way around.
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Denial about what? I don't know anything useful about the physics of a 110 story building getting hit by a plane. There are plenty of papers that have been published with all kinds of interesting hypotheses but none of these people have actually went and flown jets into 10 buildings in order to get a better and real understanding of the phenomena. If you want to cherry pick the papers you agree with and ignore the rest do so but you are doing just that.
Even in something as simple as the physics of baseball you can discover a lot with a wind tunnel and some balls.
There ain't no WTC tower plus a jet wind-tunnel.
Saying something is possible or not possible about such a structural problem seems to me to be absurd. There are plenty enough good papers out there on it - but they all have a heavy element of conjecture. The paper by the MIT professor is aptly titled "Why Did the World Trade Center Collapse? Science, Engineering, and Speculation". Speculation there is plenty of here.