Reality Check
Penultimate Amazing
The fact is that science cannot place the centre of gravity anywhere in the building without making an assumption about the mass distribution of the building. That should include the foundations but we have no knowledge about them.Could somebody (not Bjarne, because he is clueless) explain this to me: in Bjarne's drawing of the Domus Vista Building, he places the centre of gravity somewhere in the lower middle of the building and triumphantly declares that this is not where science would have placed it. Is this true? I would have thought that this is exactly where science would have placed it without knowing much about local circumstances.
A standard assumption would be that each floor of the building is the same height and mass. This places the centre of gravity at the middle of the building, i.e. at the 15th floor of 30.
We though know that the bottom floors (three?) are higher than the others. That would place the centre of gravity a few meters lower, e.g. the middle of the 14th floor.
What we do know is that in order to have the centre of gravity at the third floor as Bjarne's fantasy would have it, there has to be as much mass above it as under it. In other words, Bjarne wants half the mass of the building in the first 3 floors. That means that these floors are 9 times heavier than the others!
What we do know is that
- Bjarne's measurements show that the ADG difference between each floor changes up to the third floor. This debunks his central gravity idea which predicts a constant ADG (a difference of zero between floors). The changes are attributable to a ground effect, e.g. the ground and other buildings decreasing the ADG and the effect decreasing with height.
- Bjarne's measurements show that the ADG difference between each floor is constant above the third floor. This debunks his central gravity idea which predicts a constant ADG (a difference of zero between floors).