At a Physics course at a University, many years ago, the professor thought to give his students the following assignment to answer:
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:
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.
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 go out with you", and take into account the fact that I went out with her last night, then number 2 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."
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