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Old 01-06-2003, 07:53 PM
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Great scientific logic on the nature of Hell.....
>
> >The following is an actual question given on a
> University of Washington
> >engineering mid-term. The answer was so "profound"
> that the Professor
> >shared it with colleagues, and the sharing
> obviously hasn't ceased...
> >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 off 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 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 us 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 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 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 Teresa 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 still have not
> >succeeded in having sexual relations with her,
> then, #2 cannot be true,
> >and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and will
> not freeze."
>
>
> >This student received the only A.
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