No serious architct or engineer is denying what you claim. Certainly fire caused a reaction. But what happened after that below the areas of fire? You make anecdotal references to blast furnaces, but provide no commentary on the building structure partially or as a whole. You make no use of relative facts (except this one about fire)and then imply a catastophic root cause analysis would alway leave gaping holes, convenient. That does not cut it in the real world, where you have to answer to actuary statistics and liability claims.

Serious minds are addressing this issue. Ones that are not playing the politics game or peddling a cause in a blog or on TV using partial facts. The pancake theory has quietly died. You don’t see PBS and the History channel repeating that ad nauseum. That theory only partially described events and completely left out mention of the core. This is now replaced by a theory of a plastic wave front that traveled ahead of the actual impact zone. That is the official theory as of today.

You provide just enough information for someone who graduated high school to say, “that sounds right to me”. Before you try to refute an asshole like Rosie by recollections of textbooks, check your facts and do your research.

As simple as I can put the question to anyone reading. How can a body at rest begin to fall through the force of gravity into a simliar body of mass and density and after impact, acceleration occur?

Sadly, as the few comments indicate, until the atmosphere of you vs. them dies down, a serious discussion can not occur.

no fact checking required.

Who exactly in the “Reality-Based Community” believes Rosie’s crap? Anyone of the top 10 liberal bloggers? Any Democratic congressman or senators, or any senior members of their staff? Any editorial boards of the MSM?

I was hoping for more, but using your own “big word” you immediately frame or demonize by grouping real science with a faux religion. That is a french word. You can jump all over that and opine tangentially to redicule, but I will direct you to the Manual of Steel Construction, latest edition, and the periodic table to better understand what I have said.

I beg the author to explain the phrase, “hastened the collapse” and all that it implies in any different terms or words available to either agree or disagree with the official theory.

Hay guys, “BIG WORDS”.