So I was checking my nihilist email account...
and i found something that totally pertains to my life aside from the fact that I don't believe in the existence of hell. Anyways I figured a few other nerdy engineers might appreciate it....
"Is Hell exothermic or Endothermic?
A thermodynamics professor wrote 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:
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 then one of these religions and since
people do not belong to more then more then 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 then 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 then 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'll 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."
Woohoo Thermo!