Christopher7 said:
The question of what kept the steel hot is the question you're repeatedly trying to avoid answering. The reason you're trying to avoid answering it is not that you can't
I did answer. No one can say for sure. This is just a cheap denial tactic.
Then you admit that there was a heat source in the rubble pile, and that you don't know what that heat source was. Good. We're getting somewhere.
Christopher7 said:
P4: A heat source capable of maintaining temperatures above the melting point of steel is also capable of creating these temperatures.
Wrong. The heat source need only slow the cooling.
OK, let's re-phrase P4: A heat source capable of maintaining temperatures above the melting point of steel
may also be capable of creating those temperatures.
C3: Therefore, there
was a heat source present in the rubble pile which
may have been capable of melting the steel.
(Since we don't know at present the identity of that heat source, you have no grounds for your claim that it was capable of slowing the cooling of the pile but not of heating it to the required temperatures.)
Christopher7 said:
Therefore, there is no evidence for the presence of thermite at ground zero.
Circular logic.
No, it isn't. I've demonstrated that, whether P1 is assumed to be true or untrue, there is a viable hypothesis explaining all phenomena which does not require thermite, and does not require the presence of any other phenomenon which we do not already know to be present. Therefore, thermite is not a necessary premise for a vialbe hypothesis. This isn't circular logic, as its conclusion (thermite is not a necessary premise) is not assumed in any of its premises.
Christopher7 said:
Unless you can point to any fallacies in this chain of reasoning, you have no argument for thermite.
This is a bunch of double talk based on your assumption that the witnesses were lying or mistaken.
No, it isn't. As you, and everyone else reading the post, can see, I've started from the premise that the witnesses were correct, and demonstrated that thermite is not a necessary premise. Therefore, the existence of molten steel several weeks after the collapse is not proof of the presence of thermite. You are the one refusing to see things you don't want to see.
Dave