[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Sans-Serif]NOVA: The Twin Towers collapsed essentially straight down. Was there any chance they could have tipped over?
Eagar: It's really not possible in this case. In our normal experience, we deal with small things, say, a glass of water, that might tip over, and we don't realize how far something has to tip proportional to its base. The base of the World Trade Center was 208 feet on a side, and that means it would have had to have tipped at least 100 feet to one side in order to move its center of gravity from the center of the building out beyond its base. That would have been a tremendous amount of bending. In a building that is mostly air, as the World Trade Center was, there would have been buckling columns, and it would have come straight down before it ever tipped over.
Have you ever seen the demolition of buildings? They blow them up, and they implode. Well, I once asked demolition experts, "How do you get it to implode and not fall outward?" They said, "Oh, it's really how you time and place the explosives." I always accepted that answer, until the World Trade Center, when I thought about it myself. And that's not the correct answer. The correct answer is, there's no other way for them to go but down. They're too big. With anything that massive -- each of the World Trade Center towers weighed half a million tons -- there's nothing that can exert a big enough force to push it sideways.
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A professor of materials engineering and engineering systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Eagar went on to write an influential paper in the journal of the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society entitled "Why Did the World Trade Center Collapse? Science, Engineering, and Speculation"
[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Sans-Serif]Wie zal ik nou eerder geloven? Ingeniers die ook nog eens studies hebben gedaan op het gebied van het instorten van die torens of een paar zelf verklaarde 'wetenschappers' die wat broddelsites de lucht in helpen en met verdraaide feiten zelf een verhaal verzinnen wat er gebeurd zou moeten zijn? Geen moeilijke keuze voor mij, maar complottheoristen moeten vooral broddelaars geloven als degenen die 'In Plane Site' of 'Loose Change' hebben gemaakt. [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Sans-Serif]
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