9/11 Physics: "You Can't Use Common Sense"

[eomer]

21. No, as that paper explains repeatedly, calculations of the real life physical process were not done.

What they did instead was assume a highly idealized proxy and then they did calculations of that idealized model. But what they didn't do was demonstrate that the proxy says anything definite about what the real life process would have done. They claim to have established a limiting case by making assumptions that only go against collapse but that's not true. They assume that the top piece imparts all its force onto the lower part at one single instant, as a rigid monolithic object. This assumption is clearly not true and it clearly goes in favor of collapse of the idealized model, not against collapse. So in fact they have a combination of some assumptions that go against collapse and at least one major one that goes in favor of collapse. They have provided no answer for how one would resolve those assumptions working in opposite directions against each other and see what would happen in the real physical process. It is smoke and mirrors, designed to seem physics-y but is not a calculation of the actual physical reality and not a real limiting case since their statement about assumptions all going against them is not true.