You haven't refuted the Missing Jolt paper.
Tony that is an outright untruth as you know and most members here are aware. And that includes some debunker allies of yours who have fallen for your false premise(s) on "Missing Jolt".
You simply have asserted a nonsensical claim that the columns would miss each other before they had a chance to contact.
Begging the inference that YOU find it "nonsensical" - I could possible write it in language simpler that high school student level if you want to rebut my arguments.
STATUS is - I have posted several fully reasoned explanations. You have never responded other than by bare assertion, personal attack OR ignore.
Put up or shut up time Tony. If you ask explicitly I will repost the explanation step by step for you to agree or rebut.
This is ridiculous on its face.
Possible to someone who has started from a false premise and stubbornly refuses to put brain in gear and THINK. Actually the previous assertion - "
before they had a chance to contact" - is FALSE - the relevant columns NEVER LOST CONTACT - they NEVER FELL THROUGH A GAP to come into your fantasy contact. Read the BLOCK CAPITALS a few times Tony till the meaning sinks in. That is your fundamental error which arises from applying the Bazant limit case assumptions as if they actually happened. They didn't.
I have explained that a 73 million lb. 12 story upper section in WTC 1 would not move sideways due to inertia1 and that the tilt was one degree or less2 for the first couple of stories of the collapse and that one degree doesn't misalign the columns horizontally more than a fraction of an inch3.
I'm familiar with your three legged straw-man. The premise is wrong therefore the "three legs" are moot and irrelevant.
Here - in brief in case you have forgotten:
1 Agreed in general - but it is a straw-man. You've been reading Heiwa. There was no need for the "block" to move sideways as an entity - individual columns failed by some version of either cutting OR overload in axial compression - why and how a single column failed is the best starting point - try thinking it through from there Tony.
2 Another straw-man. Tilt is irrelevant. Tilt resulted from columns failing - by the time there was tilt the lower side columns had already moved past the point of axial contact. That much should be bleedingly obvious Tony. The gap got shorter - the original column length could not fit there. AND there was no "dropping to impact". Tilt came AFTER failure of those affected columns. How does your model give Tilt BEFORE failure so that the failing columns' ends can impact???? Even simpler how can there be tilt WITHOUT failure of columns having happened - already?
3 Same straw-man recycled.
Your claim has no rigor behind it and is baseless like many others on this forum.
I wont speak globally for "others" BUT - if my claim has no rigor - prove it Tony. Man up and stop the bare assertions. I've offered to repost it STEP BY STEP.