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The following is allegedly a question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid-term.

The was the answer given by one of the students:

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 when it expands and heats 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 at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets into 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.

Most religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is 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 proportionately 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. 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 Teresa during my Freshman year that, “It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you, and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number two must be true and thus, I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. 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 received an A+
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Interesting...............but alot of folks think hell is here on earth.....sometimes.
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Post by Patsy Warnick »

Wow, I wasn't aware Hell needed to be explained

For myself - I don't believe there is a Hell for Soul's to enter.

I believe our Soul's borrow the Bodies we have - at the time of death our Soul's move on.

Which would help explain why someone seems so familar to you.

Also, when there's a death another child is born - the cycle continues.

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dear along for the ride and patsy ...

i do believe that all of this post is very "tongue in cheek" and intended to be a joke really ... it all boils down to this the last paragraph about Teresa ...

Jj

If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, “It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you, and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number two must be true and thus, I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. 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!
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Post by Omni_Skittles »

Is it bad that i am too lazy to read all that... :(
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You have a hot date right now on another thread.................:)
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"Hell is other people."

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Omni_Skittles;782360 wrote: Is it bad that i am too lazy to read all that... :(




It's actually funny! Well, I think so anyway :wah::wah:
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