How Hot Is It in Hell?
Sunday, October 09, 2005
The last few days has been a rollercoaster emotion ride for me. One time I feel so motivated the next time I'd bee feeling low and lazy. Especially when you do a count down on your first final. 4 days. And I haven't started yet. Oh well.. it's a different matter.
Anyways, I found this at Hell's Pizzza Website. Very clever indeed, I have to learn to think more like him.
How Hot Is It In Hell?
A True Story from a Yale professor
A thermodynamics professor had written a take home exam for his graduate students. It had one question:
Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)? Support your answer with proof.
Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools off when it expands and heats up when it is compressed) or some variant.
One student, however, wrote the following:
First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So, we need to know the rate that souls are moving into Hell and the rate they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Some of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there are more than one of these religions and since most people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all people and all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially.
Second, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand as souls are added. This gives two possibilities:
1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.
2. Of course, if Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hellfreezes over.
So which is it? If we accept the postulate given to me by Miss Theresa Banyan during my freshman year that 'It will be a cold night in Hell before I sleep with you' and take into account the fact that I still have not succeeded with her, then #2 cannot be true, and so Hell is exothermic.
The student got the only A.
Anyways, I found this at Hell's Pizzza Website. Very clever indeed, I have to learn to think more like him.
How Hot Is It In Hell?
A True Story from a Yale professor
A thermodynamics professor had written a take home exam for his graduate students. It had one question:
Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)? Support your answer with proof.
Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools off when it expands and heats up when it is compressed) or some variant.
One student, however, wrote the following:
First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So, we need to know the rate that souls are moving into Hell and the rate they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Some of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there are more than one of these religions and since most people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all people and all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially.
Second, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand as souls are added. This gives two possibilities:
1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.
2. Of course, if Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hellfreezes over.
So which is it? If we accept the postulate given to me by Miss Theresa Banyan during my freshman year that 'It will be a cold night in Hell before I sleep with you' and take into account the fact that I still have not succeeded with her, then #2 cannot be true, and so Hell is exothermic.
The student got the only A.
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