Nyctohylophobia

Many 9/11 conspiracists/revisionists/rejectionists/deniers support the theory of Judy Wood, since she is a mechanical engineer who happens to agree with their bogus hypothesis that "9/11 was an inside job." Wood claims that if the pancake Twin Towers collapse theory is true, then the Twin Towers would have had to completely collapse in 87.9 to 96.7 seconds. She creates an analogy between the floors and billiard balls. The basis for her theory is that each floor stops completely when it falls on top of another, so there is no acceleration. However, the buildings were only designed to support the static weight of the floors above them, not the dynamic force. In the case of the Twin Towers, each floor obviously created some drag, as evidenced by the debris next to the tower (which sometimes shot out the windows due to overpressure from the falling floors; these weren't "demolition squibs") that was falling faster than the monolithic mass. The floors continued to forcefully slam onto each other and the collapse became faster due to gravity.

Judy Wood is also notorious for her invalid and ludicrous comparison between the Twin Towers and trees, which was uncritically and enthusiastically endorsed by Jim Fetzer.

Below is actually picture from one of Judy Wood's Microsoft PowerPoint presentations (it's neat-looking but the concept behind it is just inane):

Labels: Controlled Demolition, Insanity, Judy Wood, Mechanics, Pancaking, Physics, Progressive Collapse, Twin Towers, WTC