Here is some applied science for you.  How Hot Is It In Hell?  (A True

Story)



A thermodynamics professor had written a take home exam for his

graduate students. It had only 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 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. Now, 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 in 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

Hell freezes over."



So which is it? If we accept the postulate given to me by Ms. Therese

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 in having sexual relations with her, then #2 cannot

be true, and so..............Hell is exothermic.



The student got the only A.