{"id":799,"date":"2005-10-09T21:10:41","date_gmt":"2005-10-09T21:10:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-18T23:01:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T23:01:31","slug":"is-hell-exothermic-gives-off-heat-or-endothermic-absorbs-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/?p=799","title":{"rendered":"Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Got this text from Marius, some in Norwegian, but most in English – for thoose of you not able to read Norwegian – don’t worry, you will still get the point \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\n

Gasser i Helvete og naturvitenskapelig bevisf\u00f8ring<\/p>\n

Kjemi-studenter ved University of Washington skal etter sigende ha f\u00e5tt f\u00f8lgende
\nekstrasp\u00f8rsm\u00e5l til en ‘mid-term’-eksamen:<\/p>\n

Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?<\/p>\n

De fleste studentene fors\u00f8kte \u00e5 f\u00f8re bevis med utgangspunkt i Boyles lov, dvs. at
\ntemperaturen p\u00e5 gasser g\u00e5r ned n\u00e5r volumet utvider seg, og g\u00e5r opp n\u00e5r volumet
\npresses sammen. \u00c9n student hadde imidlertid en ganske original vri p\u00e5 besvarelsen,
\nsom skal ha blitt bel\u00f8nnet med en ‘A’:<\/p>\n

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know
\nthe rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving.
\nI think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave.
\nTherefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let’s look
\nat the different religions that exist in the world today. Most of these religions
\nstate that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since
\nthere is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more
\nthan one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death
\nrates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase
\nexponentially. <\/p>\n

Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle’s Law states
\nthat in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume
\nof Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added. <\/p>\n

This gives two possibilities:
\n1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell,
\nthen the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.<\/p>\n

2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then
\nthe temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over. <\/p>\n

So which is it? If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman
\nyear that, “it will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you”, and take into
\naccount the fact that I slept with her last night, then number 2 must be true, and
\nthus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. The corollary of
\nthis theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting
\nany more souls and is therefore, extinct…leaving only Heaven thereby proving the
\nexistence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting “Oh
\nmy God.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Got this text from Marius, some in Norwegian, but most in English – for thoose of you not able to read Norwegian – don’t worry, you will still get the point \ud83d\ude42 Gasser i Helvete og naturvitenskapelig bevisf\u00f8ring Kjemi-studenter ved University of Washington skal etter sigende ha f\u00e5tt f\u00f8lgende ekstrasp\u00f8rsm\u00e5l til en ‘mid-term’-eksamen: Is Hell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16224,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions\/16224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}