WTC Dust
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Since momentum is a function of both mass AND velocity, it really doesn't tell you much to know how fast something is moving, anyway.
How much would it hurt if a boat pinned you to a dock at 1 mph? A rowboat, not so much. An ocean liner...squish.
My question to you is "how long would it have taken these concrete floors you speak of to fall twelve feet?"
Since the lower floor isn't going to fall before the upper floor hits it (under a collapse scenario), then how long will it take for the second floor plus the first floor that fell to fall down to the third floor in the sequence?
Etc. going all the way down adds up to more than a minute.
NOT THAT ANY OF THAT HAPPENED, FOLKS! Floors didn't fall onto other floors. Floors got turned into dust, and then the dust fell. Floors crashing into each other did not generate the dust.
And even if they had, they wouldn't have generated metallic foam.