So for years, on the very day of 9-11, and intermittently since, on through today, I and I'm sure many others, have pondered or wondered: just why did the towers collapse in the manner that they did?
It seems like at least every year, someone posts some highly advanced looking video on YouTube, with scientific theory after another, and plenty of diagrams and 3D imaging, trying to explain what happened and why it happened.
Here's one of the things I've noticed, the videos are not exactly alike. But it is hard science right? 2+2 is 4, all math teachers say the same thing no matter what the school. So why the differences in the videos?
I do have a personal opinion that there might be a few too many videos about 9-11 involving theory that are currently readily available to the public like they are; whereas, some of the content of some of the videos might be questionable.
Misinformation-- all someone has to do is claim their structural engineer and maybe physics background, and they are on video, posting their theories, which may or may not be entirely correct; it may be hard for many people that did not spend 10 years at the doctorate level studying the subject of rigid material integrity, to discern the truth from when someone is bending the truth ever so slightly to appear believable, viable, or acceptable, but enough to trick.
My Dear firefighters, rescue crews, and first responders,
Surely as many of you are well aware, and holding much more knowledge, when a structure is under intense heat, it is bound to come down in some kind of way; in my personal book, the safe side is, it may be bound to come down from the very second or start of heat, especially involving visible flame, begins. Perhaps a big reason why, is the simple concept of expansion; when expansion of some aspects of a structure occur at different speeds or inconsistent with other aspects, there is bound to be an imbalance or incontinuity in aspects of the structure, and resultantly, just as if you were to stack soft plastic water bottles one atop the other in the sun on a hot summer day with soda like substances such as flavored drinks, in some but not others, alternating a vertical column, you would notice that the heat might cause the bottles with the drinks in them to be fatter than the others. I'm getting at, it is similar to milk gallon two thirds the way full left sitting out on the counter in the summer heat with the cap on. You come back to put it in the refrigerator, and the milk jug is so fat it's about to burst, nevermind the milk rotten. The stack of bottles, carefully balanced on top each other, as some get fat, and some melt etc., that stack of bottles is bound to come tumbling over, after say a certain amount of time in the heat, even though the balancing act worked at first.
Baltimore City, Maryland in recent several years has witnessed the tragic loss of firefighters, due to 'unexplained' roof, beam, floor, or some aspect of structure, collapses.
A large focus of videos about the towers on 9-11 has been placed on the sustainability of the beams in the towers during the heat.
Was it just the beams? If there was a jigsaw pattern involved with how some of the structures were set, why didn't the collapse come down in a jigsaw pattern?
From a normal eye's view, after 23 years of footage, it appears the towers came pretty much straight down, similar to a tidal wave composed of a mass of water, crashing, instead of horizontally, vertically.
'Gravity involved', may have been an unspoken, because perhaps popularly accepted principle, factor.
What was it that had that phenomenon occur? For whatever reason, the Lord allowed it to happen, it may be that he had His hand in the finality.
There maybe some things that terrorists in all their vain efforts cannot accurately calculate, among them, human will, and the will of the Creator.
Of course, the always standing guidance is to read and seek knowledge. Learning about the ways to prevent catastrophes is very important and should continue at the utmost possible.
Further reading:
7-year-old killed in sand collapse at Florida beach
News 6, February 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHg8C22NXqk and other videos of the event
Who would suspect that a simple hole would cave in? Where, what part of the ground, what was the science, the measurements?, there might not have been readily available calculations, or at least ones immediately perceivable
3 firefighters dead after collapse during rowhome fire in west Baltimore
WBAL TV 11, January 2022
https://www.wbaltv.com/article/collapse-2-alarm-fire-firefighters-trapped/38864805
In closing in the afterwords, I remember as a child going into a forested area, or yard densely populated with trees, and with most of the trees, for illustration, around the same size, it was about the same effort to cut each tree down in the project of clearing some land. But there was this one tree, no matter how many times the ax was put to it, it never seemed to budge, different angles, different tools, electronic chainsaws, it didn't matter, it did not budge, it did not topple. Well, it might've just been petrified, is the educated guess, but after close observation, petrification wasn't the case. So what was it?