I'm glad to humor your professor... people that are afraid to put the kettle on the stove because "thermal expansion" would knock all the other pots off.
1500 degrees is a lot if you have your hot tub cranked up that high. In the real world beyond the internet car exhaust systems go beyond that with turbocharged engines without the car collapsing , without melting or drooping the pipes the exhaust goes through and without the tailpipe expanding and stabbing into the car behind you. Expansion isn't measured with a yardstick.
The heat that would be contained in the building would be just like a barbeque , it would burn your steak but won't collapse the rack down into the coals. Most of that heat would escape out the windows. But oddly enough there wasn't enough heat to shatter most of the windows.
Tell them science is weird.
Reading back a bit (this post died for a couple weeks)...
"I personally think that in the perspective of Acham's razor(Forgive the spelling) that it is much easier to believe the terrorist plot, and burning of the buildings causing their collapse, than to believe that our government for several years has been setting the idea up, finding some way to get explosive experts to strategicly bring explosives into the building and place them in exact locations for a controlled explosion, convince american pilots to murder innocent civilians, including themselves, by flying multiple planes into different buildings, then convincing mideastern people to hijack another plane, allowing the passengers to call their love-ones on the phone DESCRIBING the terrorists, and then have the plane crash in Pennsylvania, and for the remaining 5 years keep EVERYONE involved in this plot to be quiet....hmmm.
Or are you convinced that our government got all the people that helped plot it all and shot them the day after so they couldn't confess?"
Acham sounds like a Muslim name
Who is saying anybody got shot? You make a bunch of assumptions off what you are told is the true story. It would likely involve people outside the government like Mr Silverstein.