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This is why I said in the beginning the only difference is the momentum from the couple of floors where the beams got severed. But as we know from the 3rd law of mechanics the force generated from that momentum would eventually be neutralized by the resistance from the floors below where the beams are intact.
No, that's a wrong analogy. Dropping an anvil assumes adding additional weight that isn't part of the structure. That's not the case because no additional weight was added as I stated before. The building wasn't designed to support a 100k ton anvil on top of it, but it was designed to support itself even in the case of structural damage (it could withstand a few planes crashing at it compromising sections of the beams). At this point I have to say you're deliberately skewing the facts and strawmaning.
The force generated from the 100.000 ton tower falling is greater than the resistance from the floors below. As the tower is falling, energy is generated. It gains momentum as long as it keeps moving downward. Even though it loses some energy hitting the floor below it, by such a heavy object falling it regains that energy, plus some extra energy, and hits the next floor even harder than it did the floor above it.
If you remove the top 30 floors from the twin towers, where it now has 80 floors, and drop an 100.000 ton anvil on top of the tower, floor 80 will be crushed, as it is not designed to withstand an 100.000 object falling on top of it. No part of the building was designed to have a 100.000 ton object, that be the top 30 floor of the tower, drop on top of it, which is what happened.