Heiwa,
You started this thread. On your own.
You offered a monetary pay-off. On your own.
You have APPARENTLY rescinded your pay-off. On your own.
SEVERAL people, including me, are simply trying to get you to clarify this confused situation.
For some reason, you are being peversely evasive.
It's a simple question.
Are you offering $1 million, here or anywhere, for someone who builds a structure that meets your "Heiwa Challenge" conditions?
Yes or no?
tk
PS. Your axiom. "... famous ..."?? Please.
Not in the opinion of anyone who actually understands engineering.
Yes, I started the thread. No money mentioned in post # 1. It is a practical exerzise.
So far only two structures (sic) are trying to comply:
1. The psik model - a mass C is dropping on other similar masses A held in place by some support connection (a tooth pick on a vertical rod) a certain distance apart! Quite clever! C drops on top A mass, breaks the connection; thus C + one A mass drop on second A mass and break the second connection, etc. After a while the breaking of connection stops. C + A masses only manage to damage a certain number of connections. At every breaking of a connection, which takes time, there is a jolt, C slows down (energy is required to break the connection). The psik model clearly shows how top part C loses energy at every breaking of a connection ... and therefore cannot drop free fall or x% of free fall ... and C is actually slowed down.
The psik model doesn't crush down the vertical rod keeping the connections in place so it does not fullfil the Heiwa Challenge conditions.
The psik model is note really a structure in the sense of the Heiwa Challenge, but it clarifies the difficulties involved.
2. The Myriad structure - see other thread. Myriad will encounter the psik effect in his/her structure. Thus part C will be slowed down and stopped and not one-way crush down A. As the Myriad structure also includes vertical supports as elements between horizontal elements/masses, they will break but ... in only one location. Thus the Myriad structure is not a winner in the Heiwa Challenge.
Re money, yes $1M has been offered to anybody that can prove
theoretically that a part C of a structure A can one-way crush down A only assisted by gravity. Prof. Bazant made an attempt only two days after 9/11 but his explanation is pure fake and fraud!! Bazant makes C rigid (not same structure as A) and then he makes A very fragile and soft and yes ... C crushes A (and A cannot crush C). So C has to be crushed when it hits ground. Bazant will not earn $1M by that!
You wonder whether prof. Bazant was/is part of the terrorist team that destroyed WTC 1! Bazant's very timely contribution was to explain that what you could see on 9/11 - the destruction of the WTCs - was just a natural phenomenon due to C dropping, in turn due to fire and local failures, one-way crushing down A. And the public believed that. Then it was easy to blame the destruction on other parties in some caves in Absurdistan. And many JREF posters still believe the Bazant absurdities.
But let's face it. It is physically impossible that part C of a structure A (A>10C) can one-way crush down A.