Originally posted by HowardRoark
How does an electrical engineer qualify to review a structural engineering issue?
This is a straw-man. The issue of the WTC collapses is
not an issue of structural engineering. It's an issue of
physics. Structural
engineering operates on principles of physics, and not the other way around. And the problems with the collapses were physics problems, not
necessarily structural engineering problems. Structural engineers design buildings to stand, anyway, not fall, and MacMerdin has pointed out on
several occasions.
The collapses are not within the expertise of structural engineers.
This stuff is in the realm of basic physics and maybe demolition engineers, but least of the three comes structural engineers.
The basic physics problems do not take a physicist to address, either. A physicist
has addressed it, as Jones is a physicist, and an honored
one at that, but anyone who has graduated from any college should be able to pick up the problems. Or even those who knows basic physics from high
school courses, or even middle school or elementary sciences.
For example, the momentum of no object can be infinite based on known laws of physics. When encountering resistance (an unbalancing force, as Newton
might say), a body will lose momentum and its speed will slow.
Do you really
need a physicist to tell you that? Or
anyone?
If you do, then you shouldn't be here debating anything anyway. Or, if you're here for the $$, same thing. It's really sick, man.
Howard, if we start saving up and send you a monthly check for more than they're paying you now, will you drop all this disinfo crap? Seriously.
Would that work? Just tell us how much they're paying you and we'll see if we can't tack on a couple hundred bucks or so a month for you.