Heaven or Hell?  An easy question, you say?  
Well, you  might change your mind after reading some 
temperature calculations by some scientists who have 
way too much time on their hands.

LadyHawke
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 The Temperature of Heaven"

The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed.

Our authority is Isaiah 30:26, "Moreover, the light of the Moon 
shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be
sevenfold, as the light of seven days."  Thus Heaven receives 
from the Moon as much radiation as we do from the Sun, and in 
addition 7*7 (49) times as much as the Earth does from the Sun, 
or 50 times in all.  The light we receive from the Moon is one 
1/10,000 of the light we receive from the Sun, so we can ignore 
that ... 

The radiation falling on Heaven will heat it to the point where 
the heat lost by radiation is just equal to the heat received by 
radiation, i.e., Heaven loses 50 times as much heat as the Earth 
by radiation.  Using the Stefan-Boltzmann law for radiation, 
(H/E)^4 = 50, where E is the absolute temperature of the Earth 
(-300K), gives H as 798K (525C).

The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed ...

[However] Revelations 21:8 says "But the fearful, and 
unbelieving ...  shall have their part in the lake which burneth 
with fire and brimstone."  A lake of molten brimstone means 
that its temperature must be at or below the boiling point, 444.6C.

We have, then, that Heaven, at 525C is hotter than Hell at 445C.

-- From "Applied Optics" vol. 11, A14, 1972

So, where would *you* rather be? - LadyHawke