I am absolutely certain that meaningful analyses do not include assumptions that:
... the plane is made up of 0.1" wide swathes of material separated by 6'.
That is not the assumption. A typical swath would be the space between two of these parallel lines. I gave the distance inward the swath could travel the benefit of the doubt, assigning it the distance of the longest of the two lines on either side of the swath. I also observed, but didn't draw out, that if the swathes were 3' wide, the distance inward would not in general increase.
... jets of material that hit surfaces of the columns at about 45 degrees simply stop at that surface.
No, I didn't draw any deflection lines because it would over complicate the illustration. In this case, my assumption is the parts along that swath would deflect away from the "hole" area, and eventually come to rest.
... "deflected" material loses all of its kinetic energy.
No, its kinetic energy would be vectored in a different direction, but no longer toward the "hole" area.
... all the components of an airplane that undergoes massive destruction in a cheese grater coulumn structure continue to travel in perfectly straight lines.
No, I'm assuming other parts that were further forward in the airplane did battle with the cheese grater column structure, and took some of it out. This cleared the way for parts from further aft to sale past the area were the up-front columns were nocked out.
The debris behaves like a wave, Dwain.
To some degree it behaves like a wave, but to another degree, it behaves like individual items. This, I'm assuming, is after individual items have broken away from their mountings. If you believe the Pentagon Building Performance Report on the matter of the FDR, they say it was found just in front of, and to the side of the "Exit" hole. In that case, it would have been an item that traveled through rows of standing columns. I don't believe it traveled that far, as my analysis suggests none of the loose items traveled that far.
