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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 a proof.

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools 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 in the volume of 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 in the number of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So, which is is? If we accept the postulate given to me by Ms. Therese Banyan during my freshman year, "that it will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you," and take into account the fact that I have not succeeded in having sexual relations with her, then #2 cannot be true, and so Hell is exothermic.

This student got the only A.

:D

That's so cute. and nerdy. Which makes it cuter.

#2 definately. So we can all yell 'in your face' at someone random. We've all used that expression. :D.

By God he's my role-model.

Wow. This is about the 3,765,274,624,756th time I've seen this in either forum or email form.

Regardless, still a good'n. Bravo.

Wow. This is about the 3,765,274,624,756th time I've seen this in either forum or email form.

Regardless, still a good'n. Bravo.

I figured this would have been going around for a while, I just stumbled on it today though.

Yep, it was funny when I first heard it about 3 or 4 years ago...still, I guess there are people out there that haven't seen it before...

Those who think outside the box get As. :)

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 a proof.

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools 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 in the volume of 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 in the number of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So, which is is? If we accept the postulate given to me by Ms. Therese Banyan during my freshman year, "that it will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you," and take into account the fact that I have not succeeded in having sexual relations with her, then #2 cannot be true, and so Hell is exothermic.

This student got the only A.

:D


We must assume though, since no to our knowledge hell has neither frozen over or broken loose, the rate of souls entering Hell is equal to the expansion of hell. So equilibrium presides.

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 a proof.

Why can't hell be a closed system?

Those who think outside the box get As. :)
I tried that ... but only ended up coloring outside the bubble ... that was not acceptable

I tried that ... but only ended up coloring outside the bubble ... that was not acceptable

Well, you have to think outside the box in the correct direction...

Aaaaawww. I wish I could read this everyday... oh wait... I do! Next person to forward, post or print out this thing gets a hot poker to the eye! :mad:

Hell is exactly 666 degrees celcius.
Which isnt really THAT hot, but thats not counting the boiling oil pits, flaming gas vents and such. Of course, theres also the inner circle, which is kept at a steady -666 C, for the pleasure of Brutus and company.

Old. :cool:

Hot like britney spears new video....so rather cold actually.

Old. :cool:
Like jo mama!
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:P

First time i've seen that. That's hilarious.

This topic is retarded. Hell isn't real, Religion is just another superstion. therefore Hell has no temperature. Its agrivationg to hear ppl say such stupid things :headbang:

This topic is retarded. Hell isn't real, Religion is just another superstion. therefore Hell has no temperature. Its agrivationg to hear ppl say such stupid things :headbang:
Oh is that you? Really Chewbacca its been awhile

http://www.gothshop.com/img/inventory/8/800014_sm.jpg

HOT HOT HOT!!!

:cool:

This topic is retarded. Hell isn't real, Religion is just another superstion. therefore Hell has no temperature. Its agrivationg to hear ppl say such stupid things :headbang:
I think YOUR a figment of UpwardThrust's imagination.

I think YOUR a figment of UpwardThrust's imagination.
LOL maybe
Awile ago there was a poster of the name
Chewbacca
I dont remember his idiology but I do remember he or she was REALLY out there and starting fights all the time

hell doesnt exist...

hell doesnt exist...
It was a JOKE not a theologic standpoint