Ask a creative mind a challenging question, and 
you'll get a creative answer.  More studies on Heaven and 
hell tomorrow....  I bet you just can't wait!  {lol} 
 
LadyHawke
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 Is Hell Exothermic Or Endothermic?

A thermodynamics professor wrote a take home exam for 
his graduate students. It had one question: 
"Is hell exothermic or endothermic? 
Support your answer with proof."

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using 
Boyle's Law or some variant. One student, however, wrote 
the following:

"First, we postulate that if souls exist, then they must have 
some mass. If they do, then a mole of souls can also have a 
mass. So, at what rate are souls moving into hell and at what 
rate are souls 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 souls 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 
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 in volume in hell. Boyle's 
Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in 
hell to stay the same, the ratio of the mass of souls and 
volume needs to stay constant.

1. So, 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, than the temperature and pressure 
will drop until hell freezes over.

So which is it? If we accept the postulate given me by 
Therese Banyan during our freshman year, and take into 
account the fact that I still have not succeeded in having 
sexual relations with her, then # 2 cannot be true, and, 
therefore, hell is exothermic."

 . . . . . . . . . The student got the only A.