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Placeholder for an About page which I will write eventually after a reasonable length of time….Or until hell freezes over. Whichever is longer.
Fishz: “The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington engineering mid term. The answer was so “profound” that the Professor shared it with colleagues, which is why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well.
Bonus Question: 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 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, lets 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 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.”
Since Stifler hasn’t write much on this “About” page, I’m spectulating hell to be exothermic (1).
Stifler: Right, that is assuming that Hell expands faster or slower than the rate of souls going in. However, while we can spectulate on the rate of souls entering and (probably not leaving) Hell, we know nothing about the mass of the soul. If the soul does not have any mass, then we would be able to stuff in as many souls as we want into Hell without regard to Boyle’s Law or to other laws of themodynamtics, since they do not take up space nor have any mass. If so, then Hell can be the same size as the period at the end of this sentence without fear of freezing over or burning up.