Is hell hot or cold? (the intellectual challenge!)

by SpiceItUp 3 Replies latest social humour

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  SpiceItUp

  Here a bit of Intellectual humor for ya!!!
  

  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 not a 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 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.

  I laughed at this...anybody else have their own theories .....

  Spice in Hell

  Edited by - SpiceItUp on 6 July 2002 22:46:29
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  COMF

  Cute story, Spice, one we'd like to think is true. :)

  However, some dipfuck with no concept of subtlety has rewritten the punchline so that those of his reading comprehension level would be able to lumber their way through to a vague understanding of what the author meant. The original ending, written in the same intelligent and witty style as the rest of the essay, read like this:

  If we accept the postulate given to me by Therese Banyan during my 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 (hell has not frozen over), and therefore hell is exothermic

  Some people just need everything laid right out on the table with color-coded labels, I guess.
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  SpiderMonkey

  Or if we accept the postulate given by me to my aunt on the 4th, when she asked me when I will get my hair cut, and take into account that I have no intention of ever doing so, then #2 cannot be true (the Devil has not yet been seen wearing ice skates), and therefore hell is exothermic
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  Golden Girl

  Golden Girl.....