What are the thermodynamics of hell?

Answer 1

Is Hell Exothermic or Endothermic?

A thermodynamics professor gave his graduate students a take home exam. It had one question:

"Is hell exothermic or endothermic? Support your answer with a proof."

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law or some variant to show either that hell was exothermic (generating heat faster than it is lost, resulting in a buildup of heat) or endothermic (generating heat slower than it is lost, resulting in a loss of heat).

One student, however, wrote the following:

First we must postulate that if souls exist, then they must have some mass.

So, at what rate are souls moving into hell and at what rate are souls leaving? i.e. what is the rate of change of mass of hell. I think that we can assume that once a soul gets to hell, it will not leave. Eternal damnation is pretty much final. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for souls entering hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today.

Many 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 generally do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that everyone is damned by lack of adherence to one religion or another, and so 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, and therefore its mass, 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 the volume needs to stay constant. We arrive therefore at two possible hyptheses :

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. On the other hand, 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 Therese Banyan during Freshman year that :

"It'll be a cold night in hell before I sleep with you" ...

and take into account the fact that I still have not succeeded in having sexual relations with her, then Hypothesis 2. cannot be true.

Hence,

hypothesis 1. must be correct: Hell is exothermic.

Answer 2

I am really not to sure -- I actually have never met anyone from there. I can only speculate on such a place and only from the perseptions of people who actually have never been there -- so does hell actually exist as a place-- and as a place are the laws of thermodynamics the same as it is here on earth? hmmmm -- things to ponder -- let's say hell is a place where the laws of thermodynamics are the same as they are here on earth -- i'll have to agree with others who have answered this question that it depends on population growth verses expansion rate.

Answer 3

hi. i'm fifth 12 months mechanical engineering scholar and that i love ur instructor coz this question is the funniest question I surely have ever considered. when I come to the question as u recognize ISOTHERMAL is a thermodynamic procedure in which the temperature continues to be consistent. the hell is taken as a equipment and to say there is isothermal procedure interior that equipment the temp should be consistent, even if there is warmth addition or no longer. the extra warmth will impression the quantity and stress of the equipment. hell is isothermal meaning its volume is getting higher or smaller reckoning on warmth move and its stress is increasing or lowering. T=consistent PV= consistent adios amigos

Answer 4

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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, 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 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 of 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.

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.

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.

Answer 5

I assume you're referring to Planet Earth, considering what happens here? Solar radiation, atmospheric changes, barometric pressures, etc. If on the other hand you're referring to that mythical place most of us believe we'll never see after death, it's all hot air and methane gases from our political and business leaders, rising on their own egos.

Answer 6

People+fire=burned people

Answer 7

well for one its HOT! lol let me stop joking.. i learned about this topic form church and from these online books and they will take you through the whole thing. try free christian books.com and it will help

good luck

Answer 8

While we can't be 100% sure, this: http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~mike/misc/hell.html is a pretty interesting take on it.

Answer 9

hot and getting hotter