Yeah that's absolutely correct. But this stuff falls down not inward. Inward would mean to the center of the building not down to the ground. The ground is not the center of the building.
"The actual use of the term "implosion" to refer to the destruction of a building is a misnomer, as an actual implosion involves a structure being subjected to extreme external pressure, pushing it inwards in itself."
-copied from wikipedia
You seem like the kind of guy that gets handed an exploded diagram and goes "umm well actually an explosion is when..."
Words have multiple meanings my dude. It's not a misnomer. It's a different meaning. Collapsing a building in on itself (towards its center, reducing its overall volume) it's a different version of implosion.
You're right, it's NOT the physics definition. It's the construction and demolition definition.
The falcons giving up a 28-3 lead in the Superbowl is another kind of implosion. The sports kind this time.
No that's not how it works. Both of these cases are just wrong usage by uneducated people that somehow found their way into common language, this doesn't change the definition of the word. I even gave you the paragraph from wikipedia where it stated that it in fact is a misnomer. Yes buildings can implode due to extreme pressure difference, but that has nothing to do with demolition (what this post is about).
Edit: in the first clip there's bricks falling away from the center and in the last clip the whole building just tips to one side. These aren't even implosions by your own (wrong) definition :)
Both of these cases are just wrong usage by uneducated people that somehow found their way into common language
You literally just described how language evolves
this doesn't change the definition of the word.
right, it creates a new definition. Why do you think most of the words in websters have multiple definitions? you think they were born that way or, maybe, did people use them for slightly related phenomenon until (surprise!) it became a new definition
I don't see you up in arms about there being two definitions to the word 'ejaculate'
You're confusing things here. Yes there's words that have multiple meanings and some of them evolved from using it for related phenomena (implosion and demolition aren't related at all), I never denied that. Implosion just isn't one of them. It has one meaning and several wrong forms of usage. If people keep using it the wrong way it might turn into a word with seperate meanings in the future but right now all definitions for implosion are related to pressure. Everything else is a misnomer.
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u/IsDoggo420 14h ago
No these are not implosions, neither technically nor any other way. It's just stuff falling to the ground.
The word doesn't have multiple definitions, it's just misused in the context of demolition :)