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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DJ.Parker" data-source="post: 40974" data-attributes="member: 1924">>>Enjoy!!>>>>The following is supposedly an actual question given on a University of>>Massachusetts at Lowell, engineering dept.'s 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 the 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" >>>></blockquote>

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