Unlike the Twin Towers, Building 7 was not hit by a plane. In fact, it was 370 feet away from the closest of the Twin Towers, but at 5:20 pm that afternoon it simply collapsed in near perfect symmetry at free-fall acceleration.
After being forced by public pressure to investigate what clearly appeared to be controlled demolition, the National Institute of Standards and Technology ("NIST") claimed the collapse was simply “due to normal office fires” and refused to acknowledge Building 7 fell at free-fall acceleration. It wasn't until high school physics teacher David Chandler used basic science to prove free-fall acceleration that NIST finally conceded to that fact.
To truly appreciate the importance of this, hold any object out in front of you and let it drop. The fact that an enormous structure like Building 7 literally dropped in this manner is not only extraordinary, it is unprecedented. In the history of high-rise construction, not a single steel-framed building has ever collapsed due to fire , much less at free-fall acceleration and in near perfect symmetry. For this to have happened to Building 7, some of the most basic laws of physics ( Newton's Law of Mo