This is a true story:
*** EVEN if you get a little lost, read to the end,
which is very funny.
A thermodynamics professor had written a take-home exam for
his graduate students. It had one question.
Is hell exothermic or endothermic? Support your answer with a proof.
For Non-science majors, exothermic is when something releases heat
and endothermic is when something generates heat
Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using
Boyle's Law or some variant. One student, however, wrote the
following:
"First, we postulate that if souls exist, 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, 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 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 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.
#1 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.
#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 me by Jennifer
Smith during Freshman year, and take into account the fact that I
still have not succeeded in having sexual relations with her, then #2
cannot be true, and hell is exothermic."
The student got an A