Creative Speculation

... collapsing in quick succession after the interior structure had collapsed between the 5th and 13th floors, which was what was going on during the 6+ seconds after column 79 and the east penthouse collapsed. And then I'm talking about what happened after the shell fell 7 feet at less than freefall during the first 1.75 seconds: Columns on those 8 floors buckled because they no longer had lateral restraint, and then they broke at the splices, which were at every other floor. Broken columns would have zero resistance, which explains the freefall, and you don't need explosives to break them. Gage claims it looked exactly like a CD, but then he ignores the actual details of what it actually looked like (never mind what it sounded like). The NIST hypothesis fits those observations, whereas his CD hypothesis simply does not, because if explosives had taken out the columns, the freefall would have begun immediately, not after descending 7 feet. Now, I personally attribute Gage's claims to his intellectual dishonesty while some attribute it to stupidity, but really, it doesn't matter so who cares.

BTW, debating tip: accusing someone of avoiding facts is an especially bad way to try to avoid facts.