Issues such as design - the structural frame, floor systems, column grid, construction materials - thing you claim when asked "housewives would know" right off the bat. Things you claim you know but "are not important." The difference between you and myself is I understand that these all are issues to consider when trying to find out why a structure fails, I don't start under the premise that
no structure can fail. But don't take my word for it about your lack of experience in this area, you're demonstrating it repeatedly:
Maybe this will help:
Take a cardboard box. Cut it all the way around a bout half way up. Now try and get the top part to fit inside the bottom part. You have to bend the sides in.
Now imagine getting a smaller box [to represent the core columns] to do the opposite and go on the outside the lower part.
Even if you could manage to do both of these simultaneously, which you can't, there is no way to get the dozen or so central core columns to apply their weight to the floor outside the core area as is required in the NIST FAQ hypothesis.
A card board box does nothing to illustrate your point. Among other things you're literally comparing a monolithic object to an enormous composite system. You start buckling columns in a building like that and it will fail. You also don't understand at all the
square cube effect. You're ignoring the same problems with your argumentation in architecture that you have with interpreting witness statements of molten metal/steel. I take all of their statements at face value but there isn't anything supporting that what they are looking at is thermite related. All you've managed to do so far is make bald faced assertions that in their relevant areas they make no sense what so ever.
You know what you can do with that remark.
and that one
and this one too.
If you're not able to make competent statements in an area I'm studying, I'll call you out on it. If you'd rather imply I should shove it into my caverns, that's your call, but you'd likely be more successful in flustering me if you actually come up with a reasonable counter argument based on extensive study in the same area. I may explicitly imply that you're lying with your statements but you have every opportunity to prove me wrong and the best part is I won't ask you to shove it into your "caverns"
... Right, Gravy's book of denial, diversion, defamation and double talk.
No, I've been studying architecture for almost 4 years. If you have a problem with the conclusions I've made based on that education you're best off complaining to those professors I've studied with. While I have read Gravy's work, it's not what I initially derived my conclusion from. Neither is the NIST report.