American Buddhist Net

In this debate, John Brown goes back to the "unknown damage" argument over and over again in his attempt to debunk proponents of the controlled demolition hypothesis. He basically says that we can't make any claims that the airplane/fire damage was insufficient to bring those buildings down because we have no way of knowing the true extent of the damage, i.e. how many core columns might have been severed, etc.

But I'm thinking...even if all the core columns and all the floor trusses in the vicinity of impact zone had been severed clean by the airplanes (this is quite impossible but let's just say if) and the entire top section of the building came crashing down on the lower part and this somehow initiated a collapse...would it matter? I say no, you still wouldn't be able to account for the incredible speed and symmetry of the collapse.

As a visualization aid, check out the illustration included in the link below. It's just a very simple computer image but I think it gets the idea across pretty well.

LINK TO ORIGINAL