Is hell endothermic or exothermic?

Question

must provide detailed scientific reasoning

Answer 1

Going by the Biblical definition, no one ever leaves Hell, and it gets new admittances on a daily basis. Assuming the size of Hell is constant (and I guess we would also have to assume that souls have mass), it would therefore follow that the constantly increasing population would make Hell exothermic.

Answer 2

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 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. Most of
these 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.’

Answer 3

Hell is a exothermic place, because it's a place full of fire. In chemistry, an exothermic reaction is one that releases heat. It is the opposite of an endothermic reaction.

Answer 4

I would guess both, because it uses the hatred of the world to fuel itself, yet it produces heat on it's own... Exothermic uses energy, right, and endothermic exerts energy. But, I thought that this all had to do with chemical reactions... not the afterlife...

Answer 5

It depends on your concept of hell. If you mean the eternal lake of fire, well, burning is an exothermic reaction. If it be a spiritual hell in the vast oblivion, I don't know if chemistry applies there...

Answer 6

It's not a chemical reaction, it's a place, a place of eternal torment. It is likely not a physical place in the spacetime we know, and the descriptions of a lake of fire and of burning sulfur are most likely figurative. If you caught a glimpse of this place, and it was unlike anything in your experience, you would choose familiar words to describe it which gave a similar impression. In the same way, an atomic bomb is described as a fireball, but it's not fire at all.

Answer 7

Hell does not exist.