Bush Cousin Is Judge in Explosive 9/11 Case Against Bush Officials, page 6

reply to post by NewAgeMan

That assumes an understanding of physical work on his part, which is something you have no control over.

Even if you assume a tower took 16 seconds to come all the way down, that's about 0.15 seconds per floor. When you take out the time simply required for falling, ie the free-fall time, where no friction is being experienced or work being done, then you get how much time was actually spent experiencing friction/doing work, to actually destroy each floor to allow it to fall no longer impeded.

The time it would take one of the towers to free-fall in a vacuum to the ground, from the roof, is about 9 seconds. That's just how long the fall itself would take, and this is governed by laws of physics. There is no way to speed up how long it takes to fall. Destroying the structure only slows it down. That's where the additional time comes from, and that's what all the additional time beyond 9 seconds represents: work being done, that slows the falling mass down.

So let's say a tower did come down in 16 seconds. 9 seconds of that is still going to be pure free-fall, not considering air resistance, which may add on another second or two by itself. 16 - 9 = 7 additional seconds from the free-fall time that indicates real work being done, friction, the whole "slowing it down" thing. So how much did the building actually slow itself down? 110 stories of work in 7 seconds averages to 0.06 seconds per floor, dedicating solely to destroying the floor and ignoring free-falling. That's faster than you can snap your fingers.

Imo the floors were actually blown apart in pairs from the common floor/roof every other floor shared with the next in the sequence. When you watch videos and see the rows of dusty expulsions blowing out, they're too large to be coming from a single floor only. They should take up at least 2 floors. At least that's what it's always looked like to me. If they were being destroyed in pairs instead of one at a time, then it would make more sense that a single floor would average out to such a small amount of time to destroy it, but still not enough sense to justify the building doing it to itself obviously, or the floors wouldn't be destroyed in pairs in the first place. In that case it could only be a sequence that went from one to the next, one at a time.

Also if you watch the actual expulsions ripping out of the towers before they are obscured by dust, you'll notice they don't actually accelerate (or slow down, another form of acceleration), but seem to maintain regular intervals, as if some pre-programmed sequence was just executing itself linearly. You can only see this for about a second before it's obscured, but I believe others have even measured this and shown it to be a regular interval.