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BlkTallFullfig -> HELL FREEZES OVER (8/21/2005 9:24:54 PM)
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Something sent to me I thought was cute (I don't know who the author was);
The following is an actual question given on a
> University of Washington
> > chemistry mid-term. The answer by one student was
> so "profound" that the
> > professor shared it with colleagues, via the
> Internet, which is, of
> > course,
> > why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as
> well.
Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off
> heat) or endothermic
> > (absorbs
> > heat)?
> >
> > Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs
> using Boyle's Law (gas
> > cools when it expands and heats 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 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. Most of these religions state
> that if you are not a
> > member
> > of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since
> there is 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
> proportionately 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. 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 Teresa
> 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 slept with her last night,
> then number 2 must be
> > true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic
> and has already frozen
> > over. The corollary of this theory is that since
> Hell has frozen over, it
> > follows that it is not accepting any more souls
> and is therefore,
> > extinct...leaving only Heaven thereby proving the
> existence of a divine
> > being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept
> shouting "Oh my God." > >
> > THIS STUDENT RECEIVED THE ONLY "A
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