Reading these exchanges, a first ime visitor might think that
- WTC Dust claims 100% of WTC got turned to dust, there is no piece left larger than a speck of tust
- Debunkers claim 0% of WTC got turned to dust
I think neither perception fairly represents the claims.
I think both parties can agree in no time that some part got turned to dust and some did not. The difference is just over the percentages.Say, 80%-90% vs. 10-20%. Another difference would then be over the composition of the dust. WTC Dust seems to think that steel got turned into dust "just like" the other materials.
So I would rather ask WTC Dust to first
define the claim:
- How is "dust" defined? By a maximun grain size (say, 0.1mm), grain mass (say 0.000001g), or grain size distribibution? We need some numbers here
- What overall percentage of the towers got turned into dust that conforms to the above definition of dust? A range (such as "70-80%", or a lower bound (such as ">50%") are needed
- What percentage of the steel was turned into dust according to the above definition of dust? Again, numbers for the range or a lower bound are needed
- We need estimates for the total mass of the towers, and the total mass of steel in the towers. Numbers again, please.
A brief explanation of how WTC Dust arrived at these numbers would be much appreciated, of course.
Once the claim is thus defined, we could derive lower bounds of the total mass of dust (both general and steel) that were produced, and of the energy required to create these amounts of dust.
We can then further start making predictions about what must have been observed if these numbers are nearly correct, and possibly make statements about minimum specifications of the device that supposedly caused this.
These predictions, if testable, might help us to decide whether or not we agree with WTC Dust's claims of dustification.