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Please don't call me crazy and stuff like that over my theory.

I just thought of all the reasons the WTC would fall down and I thought this was possible. I said possible! I didn't say it was true!


Ok: here it is;

I call it The Ringing Bell Theory

CASE:

- Fact - the bigger the bell the louder and the LONGER the ring.

- Take a very good pear shaped bell like the liberty bell.

- Now dip it in concrete and let it harden with about 1 inch thick concrete on it.

- Now wack it with a metal basballl bat with a quick 2000LB force and stand back

- Result: The initial impact will send some concrete flying but most of it will remain and inside the concrete the bell will begin to Ring (vibrate).

Under regular conditions the ringing of the bell will release the energy as it vibrates in the air. But when compressed in the concrete it's energy will take longer to wane since it can't move as much which will produce a longer but not louder ring.

Eventually the ringing bell will begain to weaken the concrete enclosing it by making small cracks inside. The cracks will be evenly distributed because that's how a ring dissapates. Then once the cracks become deep enough they will all give way at once and the entire concrete encloser will collapse.
This may be 1 second, 2 seconds, 30 seconds or even 2 minutes after you first struck the bell.


Conclusion

The WTC was a structure that already swayed about 80 feet(40 in one direction) just from the wind at the top. The planes hit the building with enough force to cause the steal structure inside it to "ring". That combined with the fact the the building then probably began to sway 120 feet eventually weakened it's structure until it fell.


Before somebody says "I didn't see the building swaying"...
It moves too slow to notice like you don't notice the earth moving. And the biggest sway is of course at the top.

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