One time, a blogger who considered himself as an authority in the blogging community said that re-printing or re-writing an article from another source from the vast landscape of the net was somehow a no-no. I think otherwise, and therefore, I am re-printing this interesting piece by a student from the University of Washington, who somehow earned high praises from his professor by answering a question from their chemistry midterm exams in a rather different fashion. It was an essay. Let’s get into it without the long preliminaries. (Actually, I already posted this more than a year ago)
This was the question: Is hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?
This was the student’s answer:
“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 at the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul goes 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 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 in Hell has to expand proportionally as souls are added.
“This gives two possibilities: 1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate at which souls enter Hell, the temperature 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 Yolanda 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 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 more souls and is, therefore, extinct…leaving only Heaven…thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Yolanda kept on shouting, ‘Oh my God!’”
I was initially thinking of the reaction: “to hell with it,” but the saner side of me laughingly told me that the student really just deserved the ‘A’ his professor gave him, which he deserves a lot. I wanted to post this hilarious (if not comical) article since it really darn reminds me of the college life that I’ve been through. Trust me, it was fun. Right Pau T.?
This was the question: Is hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?
This was the student’s answer:
“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 at the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul goes 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 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 in Hell has to expand proportionally as souls are added.
“This gives two possibilities: 1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate at which souls enter Hell, the temperature 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 Yolanda 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 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 more souls and is, therefore, extinct…leaving only Heaven…thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Yolanda kept on shouting, ‘Oh my God!’”
I was initially thinking of the reaction: “to hell with it,” but the saner side of me laughingly told me that the student really just deserved the ‘A’ his professor gave him, which he deserves a lot. I wanted to post this hilarious (if not comical) article since it really darn reminds me of the college life that I’ve been through. Trust me, it was fun. Right Pau T.?
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