Posted on 12/24/2004 9:58:41 AM PST by Squawk 8888
This was supposedly the answer provided by a physics student to the question, "Is hell exothermic or endothermic?" Any freepers out there know the original source?
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.
LOL. All I know is entropy is increasing :)
Looking at the facts, I would have to say that all hell has busted loose. Look at all the democrats that have crawled out of the cracks in the Earth to include the ACLU and the terrorist that keep coming back up only to be sent on a return trip by our brave soldiers in the Middle East.
According to Snopes ( http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/hell.asp ), this is "true", though not from a college exam, as we usually see it.
I think this is just one of those floating internet stories. I first saw a slightly different version of this story in 1998.
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Not so fast there buster.
If one is a Zoroastrian, then the souls in hell most certainly will leave and be rejoined with The Creator at the end times.
Well then question if souls have mass are they affected by gravity?
Because assuming souls pass through matter.... souls would either fall to the molten core of the the earth or fly off the earth
Did you ever read Asimov's short story, "The Last Question" ?
In it, humans create a computer smart enough to bootstrap new computers smarter than itself. These analytical engines recursively grow super smarter and super bigger until they act as a single giant computer filling the universe.
At each stage of development, humans ask the mighty machine if it knows how to reverse entropy. Each time it answers: "Insufficient data for a meaningful reply." The story ends when human minds merge into the ultimate computer mind, which takes over the entire mass and energy of the universe.
Then the universal computer figures out how to reverse entropy and create a universe...it utters the phrase, "Let there be light!"
Christmas Kinematics
There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Buddhist (except maybe in Japan)religions, this reduces the workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million (according to the population reference bureau). At an average census rate of 3.5 children per household, that comes to 108 million homes, presuming there is at least one good child in each.
Santa has about 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 967.7 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with a good child, Santa has around 1/1000 th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stocking, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the chimney, jump into the sleigh and get onto the next house.
Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false, but will accept for the purposes of our calculations), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household; a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom stops or breaks. This means Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second--3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second, and a conventional reindeer can run (at best) 15 miles per hour.
The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium sized LEGO set(two pounds), the sleigh is carrying over 500 thousands tons, not counting Santa himself. On land, a conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that the "flying" reindeer can pull 10 times the normal amount, the job can't be done with eight or even nine of them---Santa would need 360,000 of them. This increases the payload, not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the monarch).
600,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft reentering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second each.
In short, they would burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them and creating deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team would be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second, or right about the time Santa reached the fifth house on his trip. Not that it matters, however, since Santa, as a result of accelerating from a dead stop to 650 m.p.s. in .001 seconds,would be subjected to acceleration forces of 17,000 g's.
A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force, instantly crushing his bones and organs and reducing him to a quivering blob of pink goo.
Therefore, if Santa did exist, he's dead now. Merry Christmas
up here( Minnesota) hell is freezing over.
It's a high of 3 above 0 today.
No, no , no. It is, entropy is squared.
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It is a proven fact that hell has frozen over. The Boston Red Sox won the World Series.
"Assumptions: Hell is hot. Some dead chemical engineers made it to hell. Some of the dead ChEs had previously studied and passed thermodynamics.
Answer: Hell is isothermal. Otherwise the ChEs would have used any temperature differential to drive an air conditioner."
I got an "A!"
Physical Chemisty (PChem) was my undoing as an undergraduate in Chem Eng. I made a B by the grace of God but never understood much of what I learned. Having said that, entropy and laws of thermodynamics applied to hell would be an interesting topic. Randomness and evil have a lot in common. Both will increase naturally apart from divine imperitives. One of the reasons that evolution never made sense to me even as an unbeliver is that man (physical body) could not have evolved toward a state of more order under first law of thermodnamics.
The last chapters of Revelation describe the new Jerusalem as being a 1,500 mile cube and that God will light it Himself. That implies there will be new physics then (nothing in our present physics could be both that large and cubic--gravity would round the corners; similarly, for God's light to be pervasive implies it travels through all barriers).
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