What is responsible for the acceleration up to freefall speed in a building collapse?
Unless you are going to say there were explosives in WTC 7, what was the only force that was acting?
As I explained earlier, gravity force alone cannot produce free fall
acceleration of a building structural collapse, as the building collapse itself, 10 000's of steel parts and their connections being deformed, bent, buckled, ripped apart, etc., will retard and brake the displacements, movements and accelerations of the parts that make up the total structure.
Explosives will likewise not produce free fall
acceleration! They may produce local failures of parts supporting the structure and assist a CD but the result will never be free fall acceleration of the top part as observed by Chandler and confirmed by NIST in WTC7.
I like Chandler's analysis. He, and NIST, should extend and apply the same method to study conventional CDs! They will find that any structure destroyed by CD never free falls at acceleration = g = 9.81 m/s². Except WTC7. Strange?
WTC7 thus drops much too fast to be a CD. So there must be some other force than gravity pulling down the top part (that we see) and removing the bottom structure (that we cannot see) during the destruction.
But we can see parts of the bottom structure
after destruction in the rubble. And I have never seen anything like it (on photos)! Big chuncks of strucural parts sheared off away from a solid connection, etc, etc. A rubble chunck consisting of a column + four floor girders sheard off at six loctions; the column above/below the common joint and the four girders away from the common joint. What forces/energy caused that?
That's the question. And the answer is quite obvious. Curious? I will enligthen you in my next posting. But a clue! Who or what has the technology to produce the rubble seen in WTC7?