“A Physics Test”
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.
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, then 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. 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.
Of course, if hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls
in hell, than the temperature and pressure will drop until hell freezes over.
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It was not revealed what grade the student got.
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