Destroyed In Seconds Direct

This is not merely physics; it is trauma. The human brain evolved to process loss as a gradual erosion—a barn rotting over winter, a photograph fading in the sun. We have a reservoir of grief for the slow end. But the instant end bypasses our emotional immune system. It strikes like a nerve agent.

When the smoke cleared seven seconds later, the cathedral was a pile of rubble no taller than a man’s waist. destroyed in seconds

They take a second.