Posted by ZenoBr at sdn-ar-001orsalep310.dialsprint.net on November 30, 1999 at 18:36:53:
this is an email I got and I thought that everybody round these boards might enjoy it...
Logic From Hell,
The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington
Chemistry mid-term:
Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic
(absorbes heat)?
Support your answer with a proof.
Most of the students wrote proof of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas
cools off when it expands and heats up when it is compressed) or some
variant.
One student, however wrote the following:
First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time.
So, we need to know the rate that souls are moving into Hell and the rate
they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul goees
into 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 people and all
souls are going to Hell.
With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the mumber 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 in order for the remperature and the 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 ar which souls enter
Hell, then the temperature and the 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. Therese Banyan during my
freshman year, "That it will be a cold night in Hell before I sleep with
you," and taking into account that the fact that I still have not succeeded
n having sexual relations with her, then, #2 cannot be true, and thus I am
sure that Kell is exothermic.
This student got the only "A".
-Z®
"When you do it... you're thinkin about guys!"