FW: funny one>*** How Hot Is It In Hell - A "True" Story ***

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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 off when it expands and heats up when it is
> >compressed) or some variant. One student, however, wrote the
> >following:
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> >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 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 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.
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