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HELL EXPLAINED BY A CHEMISTRY STUDENT

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and heats 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 at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which 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. Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that 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 of Hell has to expand proportionately 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.

  1. 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 Teresa 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 slept with her last night, then number two must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over.

The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct.....leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a divine being, which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting "Oh my God."

Karl

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midlant
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BUT your making a couple of assumptions here.

One is that the physics of Hell must be the same as in our universe, and not only don't we have any evidence that it is we have some that it's not.

As I recall they have performed studies to determine if Humans lost weight at the time of death, in an attempt to prove the existence of the soul. As there was no change in weight that indicates that the soul has no weight.

As it has no weight it has no mass, and it has no volume either, so we have no way of knowing just how big Hell would need to be.

Also, as I recall according to Dante, Niven and Pournelle while parts of Hell are very hot other parts are frozen, so it could be Hell is neither exothermic OR endothermic.

Jeff DeWitt

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Jeffrey DeWitt

Jeeze, Jeff, I'd leave myself a little leeway there...I guess I'm down with comparing Dante to Larry Niven, but this thing with 'Beatrice' and 'Teresa'--that is just NOT comparative literature.

Texas, for instance, is both frozen and burning, but don't accuse it of being endothermic when there's an Aggie around.

"21 Grams" was supposed to be the soul's weight.

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comatus

Weight is just the effect of a gravitational field on mass. An object that is in freefall or in neutral buoyancy has no apparent weight, but it still has mass.

Gord Richmond

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Gordon Richmond

Actually Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle wrote a wonderful book called "Inferno" about a science fiction writer that dies and eventually makes his way all the way through Hell and out the center.

It was based on Dante's Inferno, but updated for the 20th Century. For instance much of the Wood of the Suicides was cut down and replaced with an industrial wasteland, including a road with black cars that looked something like Corvettes that would chase people down and a factory were workers toiled to put together widgets what would pass through a wall where workers toiled to take them apart again so the parts could go through the wall to be put together...

There was also a mausoleum with the tombs of people who built excessive monuments to themselves (with their souls inside of course). One of them had a neon sign on it that kept flashing "And so it goes".

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Jeeze, Jeff, I'd leave myself a little leeway there...I guess I'm down with

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Jeffrey DeWitt

Jeff, go back to your physics book - one forty years old!. It can have mass without weight if there is no gravity (or acceleration, if you want to go there.) Karl

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midlant

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