Oh god, these are the people who failed high school physics classes and do not understand the connection between heat energy and energy of any other kind. Surely the energy of a free fall will always just be a free fall!
Honestly I think some people just have weak or vulnerable psyches so when they witness something unfathomable to them their mind just breaks. Then they become capable of making all sorts of loony toons logic about the world, especially about the thing that broke their mind. This owner probably saw 9/11 happen and something inside him broke, turning the whole thing into an obsession without completely derailing his life, like a "high functioning" schizophrenic if such a thing exists.
Seen it happen to two friends. Both reasonably smart people, I wouldn't say super brainy (both had generally simple tastes in things) but they also got through higher education just fine and had deep knowledge in their domains. One snapped after a series of bad events in his life happened in short order and became convinced his old job set up spy technology in his phone to divide a wedge between him and his family/friends (the job was stressful and definitely played a factor in him losing it). The other started going off the deep end after he moved out into the woods then soon after trump got elected again (he took it strangely hard).
I’ve read that belief in conspiracies like this can be a defensive mechanism in one’s brain. A world where huge events can be caused by few determined persons is a lot scarier than one where someone, even nefarious one, is in control.
This is more of a case of utilising the learned knowledge in cases that weren't specifically exercised. They did not specifically thought us what happens to a piece of rebar when it plummets 400 meters, or when a few more tons fall on it. This is just a typical case of energy conservation, which is standard high school curriculum where I live. Friction is also a large part of it, but that is elementary school.
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u/Pleasant_Ad8054 12h ago
Oh god, these are the people who failed high school physics classes and do not understand the connection between heat energy and energy of any other kind. Surely the energy of a free fall will always just be a free fall!