Point is M_T, as I have pointed out several times, there are multiple posters on this forum who agree with the ROOSD propagation of collapse. There are multiple posters therefore who do not see Bazant as representing what-really-happened. There are only two Bazantian aspects that are relevant; the first, his calculations of having the upper mass impact the floor space of the towers(his mass assumptions perhaps being off is another topic) and seeing a 30+ times greater force than those floors could withstand; and the limit case of have that upper mass fully taken by lower section columns which is the "best case" for collapse arrest and which also demonstrates that even in this, collapse could not arrest.
THAT is as relevant as Bazant is and continued discussion on the meaning of Bazant is just navel gazing.
I listed people who agree with ROOSD (the concept), your only reply was to quibble about one person I included, and one who I did not(who you would not include in such a list either), and then go back to Bazant-is-wrong-here's-why post after post.
So the question then remains, and has been asked several times in various forms, why are you beating that dead horse named Bazant?
It seems, and this is another question, inferrred in the posts of mine that you quoted, is this repeated line of Bazantian comprehension simply part of a campaign by you to illustrate that your understanding is the ultimate while all other's pale in comparison?
I can't answer for Tom.... but I suspect that at least one of his points is that B has been put on a pedestal and whether his work is correct or not... it is not related to the real world event... something that apparently many "here" seem to have a hard time to admit... AND the fact that B was considered the go-to guy who "explained" the collapses in "the early years". It appears he did not and he's been silent as have others in stating this.
Then you get all the personality thing going because Tom was supposedly a truther at one point and so anything he said, says or has done is tainted. It's like kill the messenger... who cares about the message???
Tom appears to be having a ball observing how insane the discussion is and this may be related to the parts of his Pulitzer prize winning book where he discusses scientific inquiry and so on. And as the WTC was a sort of scientific investigation... HOW those are approached is also of interest (to some). Science DOES deal with investigation of the physical world and events in it... the shuttle disaster was a pretty interesting one as a study in how investigations are undertaken... and 9/11 is similar on steroids. Of course THIS aspect is of no interest to JREFers... and certainly not to truthers. I do find the psychological aspects and "group think" behavior rather interesting. YMMV
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