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And, in turn, T Szamboti's published works and internet forum claims are all false for the same generic reason. He makes false starting assumptions which seem to just happen to favour his predetermined outcome. Key examples are:
A) A paper "Engineering Reality" published 2007 attracted this comment from an engineer who was spot on the target of Szamboti's flawed logic "but the base premises are faulty and the resulting conclusions can readily be demonstrated to be totally wrong."
B) The infamous "Missing Jolt" which is also based on a false premise - misapplication of Bazant and/or presumption of CD (probably both) - he clearly does not comprehend the cascade failure of collapse initiation for the twins;
C) Numerous Internet forum arguments where he claims that columns falling at the start of Twin Towers collapse would have seen the broken ends meet in axial alignment. Too late - they had already missed. That one he purports to back with reasoning which actually is as flawed as the starting point false assumptions. (Sadly a lot of debunkers also fell for those false premises. Engineers from both sides notoriously weak in visualising 3D mechanisms - actually anything outside of the scope of routine technical and text book calculations.)
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D) The WTC7 nonsense which has major flaws at several levels. Tony unwilling or unable to address the bigger context issues such as "Even if NIST is wrong on an irrelevant detail - what consequence does that have?" I have identified the main assumptions error which to be precise and pedantic is "unproven" - I don't claim "false" nor do I need to - it is his burden of proof. The detail of that one is that he assumes a pristine state of building in which the columns do not move due to heat effects whilst the beams connected to the columns do move. When both beams and columns have been exposed to the same fire. The idea that effects shift the beams but have zero effect on the columns is an extraordinary assumption which he makes and usually ignores or denies that he makes it. His argument relies on that premise so he has to show that it is valid - until he does his claim is not proven. Note that again - "not proven" NOT necessarily "false". I don't have to falsify his claim other than demonstrate that he has not proven it. His claim - his burden of proof.
There have been many more detailed rebuttals of his claims by other persons. I have no intention of moving into details whilst he refuses to address the unproven premise. And the "higher level context issues" at four levels are equally fatal - and he won't even address them. So the Szamboti/Pepper Letter WTC7 claims have a long way to go before they even get close to proof.
The overriding picture is one of terminal desperation driven into disputing trivialities and taking care to avoid the bigger issues. Then hoping that no one will spot the trickery.
He gets support from sycophants on forums BUT if ever the claims get before a formal inquiry they will be exposed at round one. In fact the NIST rejection of the nonsense is essentially rejection at round one.
Absolutely brilliant. Kudos to you Sir, that was quite succinct and informative.