If you sat in a hot tub that was 98.6 degrees wouldnt you die within hours?

Question

Why would you overheat even though your core temperature doesnt raise?

Answer 1

It's really a physiology question but I'll try to give it a spiritual spin. See, mostly when you soul is doing "soul-ly" things it produces heat. Normally that is what gives you that core temperature of 98.6F or 37C. Problem is, that heat from the soul has to go somewhere and that's normally out through your skin that's kept at or near 85 degrees and at any temperature below 85 your skin can dump all the heat your soul produces. Now, as the temperature climbs the skin temperature climbs and the soul cannot dump all that waste heat. Eventually your soul, even if you have the nicest soul, the kind of soul that would never utter a profane word much less view pornography on the internet - the soul of Mother Theresa - just gets fed up with the heat and it quits. When your soul leaves you, you die.

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

Of course you wouldn't die. A person can have a temperature of 105 degrees when they are sick and not die. The water would still be able to cool someone whose body was hotter than the temperature of the water and besides which your head would be exposed to the air and a lot of blood flows to your head that would cool the rest of your body.

Answer 3

You would not have the cooling effects of evaporation. This what happens when you sweat. The sweat picks up body heat and evaporates. This cools the skin. In the hot tub there would be no cooling effect. You would just keep producing sweat.

Don't know that you would die from overheating. Maybe dehydration.

Answer 4

Your core temperature WOULD rise, in fact. The environment would be supporting your natural heat, which means your metabolism would be pushing you beyond 98.6, because your sweating reflex would be defeated by being immersed in non-evaporating fluid.

However, you would be sweating all the same, so unless you were taking in vast amounts of water, you would ultimately die of dehydration and hyperthermia.

Answer 5

No. Most hot tubs are around 125 degrees or higher. Your body is 98.6 so why would you?

Answer 6

your body continually creates heat so it seems like you would have a hard time giving off the excess heat. the heat has nowhere to go so it builds up. if you are only 1 degree above the water temp, the rate of heat transfer would be very slow.

your heat probably builds up faster than the water removes it.

why is this a religious question?

Answer 7

No, my husband & I are proof of it. Our hot tub is set @ 99 degrees we stay in it for 1-2 hrs @ a time.

Answer 8

WHy is this question in Religion and Spirituality? Are there hot tubs in heaven?

Answer 9

I think your brain is going to overheat from being pegged at "Full Stupid" for over an hour.

Answer 10

degrees F, probably no. degrees C, definitely. Kelvin, maybe.
I guess the outsides of your body would burn and stuff. though I'm not usre how relavent this is.