...It seems, one way or another it's going to burn out and freeze over...
2007-10-30 04:22:49 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"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 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, let's 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, then 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 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 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 volume needs to stay constant. Two options exist:
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.
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 quote given to me by Theresa Manyan during Freshman year, "that it will 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 Option 2 cannot be true...Thus, hell is exothermic."
2007-10-30 04:26:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
My undergraduate degree is in physics. I have seen the traditional snarky answer to this question many times, and a few people have posted it thusly here. Let's logically reexamine the short argument:
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. (exothermic)
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. (endothermic)
On the one hand, we've got a chimp in the Whitehouse; the vice-president is a blatant criminal who's had like 5 heart attacks but refuses to die; there's a woman, a black man, and an hispanic man running for president, and a big-headed foreign actor who does action movies is governor of California. If Hell hasn't frozen over already, it should be real soon.
On the other hand, violent crime has reached an all-time high, kids are shooting up the schools out of boredom (or having sex), that sleazball in NY is running for president, and we're either at war with somebody or threatening to go to war with somebody. It seems like the gates of Hell are open wide and we should all just line up right now with our own personalized handbaskets.
Seems to me that we have acheived some form of hellish balance right here on earth. I submit that Hell is neither exothermic nor endothermic.
2007-10-30 11:57:21 · answer #2 · answered by badkitty1969 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If "hell freezes over" then you know it's endothermic. If "all hell breaks loose" then it's exothermic.
Most of the time when I hear "all hell breaks loose" it's about something dreadful about to happen at work (or actually happening). So this phenomenon occurs quite frequently.
Usually when I've heard "when hell freezes over" it's from women commenting on when/if they'll go out with me. Needless to say this actually happens much less frequently.
Since "All hell breaks loose" at a higher rate than "all hell freezes over" I therefore conclude that hell is exothermic.
2007-10-30 11:40:49 · answer #3 · answered by a_niceguy_in_virginia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is safe to assume that Hell is not infinite because if it were, there would be no place for Heaven.
If Hell is exothermic, then the energy must be constantly increasing in Hell's constrained space. This will result in energy radiating into the non-Hell spaces in the universe -- all Hell breaks loose.
If Hell is endothermic, then the total in energy in Hell will constantly decrease until there is none left -- Hell freezes over.
So which is correct? A girl I dated in college said that Hell would freeze over before she would have sex with me. Since that didn't happen, then Hell must be exothermic.
2007-10-30 11:34:01 · answer #4 · answered by intrepidfae 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing with 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. 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. So which is it?
If we accept the postulate given to me by Ms. Paris Hilton 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 still have not succeeded in having sexual relations with her, then #2 cannot be true; and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and will not freeze.
2007-10-30 11:29:49 · answer #5 · answered by Leafbeng 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hell is exothermic because obviously people burn in hell- meaning that it has to release heat energy onto the people that are living in it.
This was a fun question :)
2007-10-30 11:30:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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 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, let's 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, then 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 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 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 volume needs to stay constant. Two options exist:
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 quote given to me by Theresa Manyan during Freshman year, "that it will be a cold night in hell before I sleep with you" and take into account the fact that I never had sexual relations with her, then Option 2 cannot be true...Thus, hell is exothermic.
2007-10-30 11:27:43 · answer #7 · answered by Hoosier Daddy 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Hell is academic, which is both exothermic and endothermic, because for the most part, academia sucks up intelligence and spits out hot air.
2007-10-30 11:26:33 · answer #8 · answered by fiddlesticks9 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Only hot bodies are permitted to enter hell. Hell absorbs the heat from the hot bodies to retain or maintain its high temperature . The temperature in the hell however has to be below the melting point of human skeleton, or else all will be turned into homogeneous liquid where each one loses his personality and identity.
2007-10-30 11:34:03 · answer #9 · answered by eematters 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
hell, if read and researched carefully in the Bible, is a consuming fire. which is from the greek word. it means consuming not everlasting really when used in greek, the original form. hell is consuming which means your spirit which is made to be everlasting is consumed by the fire and u cease to exist and miss out on God's love for eternity. that is hell. that is the hell of God because he loves us too much to ever torture us forever. read revelation seriously and don't worry about the world's view, read the bible as an authority in your life.
2007-10-30 11:46:53 · answer #10 · answered by jade4e83 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋