Hi Zach. I see that this was 3 1/2 years ago, but if you did use this image in a brochure, will you please contact me at [email protected]? This is a copyrighted image. I am just trying to track it, you won’t be fined or anything. 🙂 Thanks.
THANK YOU PROFESSOR ‘BORING’. Didn’t really need a physics course here – just a smart a$$ answer or comment would’ve sufficed. BUT NOOOOOOOOO – you went and spoiled it – but thank you anyway for the answer as to why HELL froze over
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: 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 note 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 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.”
August 31, 2010 @ 2:57 pm
Hi, I was wondering if this is your image and I would be able to use it for a brochure made by a non for profit foundation 🙂
February 2, 2014 @ 3:13 pm
Hi Zach. I see that this was 3 1/2 years ago, but if you did use this image in a brochure, will you please contact me at [email protected]? This is a copyrighted image. I am just trying to track it, you won’t be fined or anything. 🙂 Thanks.
May 3, 2010 @ 6:39 pm
YOU ARE DAMN RIGHT, “HELL” YAH!!!!!!!!!!
February 18, 2010 @ 12:50 pm
@John_Betong
nigger you made my DAYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!
February 18, 2010 @ 10:08 am
@John_Betong
U went all that mile just 4 this???
February 16, 2010 @ 7:19 pm
I am from Michigan. But not near there. I am near lake michigan.
February 16, 2010 @ 5:46 am
@john_betong…..awesome!!!
February 16, 2010 @ 1:57 am
HELL froze over when the Saints won the superbowl!
February 15, 2010 @ 11:21 pm
THANK YOU PROFESSOR ‘BORING’. Didn’t really need a physics course here – just a smart a$$ answer or comment would’ve sufficed. BUT NOOOOOOOOO – you went and spoiled it – but thank you anyway for the answer as to why HELL froze over
February 15, 2010 @ 8:12 pm
How hot is it in Hell?
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: 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 note 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 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.”
The student got the only A.
February 15, 2010 @ 3:38 pm
THAT’S IN MICHIGAN~!!!!!!