Look, idiot, if you're going to continue with the insults, I might as well join you.
What force DUSTIFIED the floors? What force could do that? I have not disagreed with you on that. In fact, you and I may not be too far apart. Think about it. My view is that only the first few floors ever "pancaked." After that, the falling debris was to great to allow such an event to occur. The FORCE of the floors coming down is MONUMENTAL and it is that with compressed gas, turning into a plasma which in many ways actually has the HEAT to turn steel and concrete into dust. Each floor has to be sequentially destroyed as this HUGE mass reaches it. There is essentially a wave front that has the immediately next floor as a quasi-flat leading face that actually destroys each successive floor. We are, as you put it, talking a 500,000 tonne building and watching it successively come down, and as each floor comes down one more floor, the mass impinging on each floor is just that much greater and thus the destructive FORCE is also that much greater.
So, MHGinTN. . . I shall withdraw my "Idiot" as I think we are actually in agreement. I never said that the floors wound up at the bottom as I never thought that was so. I too think the forces destroyed the material on the way down and spread it over the city. . . but I think you've made an assumption that's what I meant that there would be a flapjack pile at the bottom. I knew that never happened. Just as you assumed I said there was no steel in the central column. I also know that Dr. Wood knows that pancake pile never happened.
I think as this mass of floor debris falls on each successive floor, the air in the next floor down is compressed, which according to Boyles Law causes it to become super heated, stripped of its electrons, and is turned into a plasma. This plasma is at several thousand degrees and incinerates everything to ash in seconds. The concrete floor spalls and shatters. . . as does the central core column as the superheated plasma erodes and spalls the concrete, the plasma/superheated air blasts through the elevator doors to join the already hot air at high pressure in the shafts (see Boyles law) and shatters the column at that level.
That floor falls, adding its SOME of its mass to the already stupendous mass that destroyed it, while SOME blasts out as huge amounts of hot dust and particulates and hot ash and even hotter smoke through the destroyed curtain wall/windows, some to blast away from the building and fall, some to rise into the air.
On to the next floor. All of this occurs on each floor in a fraction of a second.
Rinse, repeat, Each time the force is GREATER and more is expelled out the sides because there is MORE pressure and therefore more force to push the particulates and dust away under tremendous plasma and air pressure. (Remember the lightning — Like charges repel, more force spreads the dust and ash.) By the time the last floor is pulverized, there's not much left to drop into the crater. Mechanical forces and gravity have destroyed it all.
So, MHGinTN. . . can we agree we had a misunderstanding?
Now this paragraph strikes me as wayyyyy overmuch conjecture and assumption. It sounds like a 'high level'sounding grope. Sorry. It just does, to me.
I don't think, even with your seemingly fairly strict 'scientific mind' sort of approach to it--that you have enough information to insist 100% emphatically that exactly that is what DID happen.
I don't know how likely is your scenario is a valid explanation--it just seems like a grope too far, to me.
You mean, you can watch that implosion and not realize that was a controlled demolition?