Ahh…nothing like a great Pascal’s Wager cartoon to start my Thursday off right. “Lakes of fire”, “garments of fire”…what’s with the fire fixation? Where’s the drowning in tar? I think it’d suck to drown in tar. Or flaying alive. Man, what I’d do to avoid being flayed alive.
Koran 18:28-30
> For the wrongdoers We have prepared a fire which will encompass
> them like the walls of a pavilion. When they cry out for help
> they shall be showered with water as hot as molten brass,
> which will scald their faces
The melting point of brass is around 900 degrees Celcius and water vapourises at 100C. It may be possible to super-heat steam under extreme pressure to the temperature of ‘molten brass’, I don’t know - but you certainly couldn’t ’shower’ anyone with it. Additionally, in such an ultra-high-temperature-pressure state, I suspect the water would do substantially more damage than ’scald their faces’!
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, lets 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.
It was not revealed what grade the student got.
the version of that story i saw had an even funnier ending, cos the student rounded off with something along the following lines.
“… and Laura Jones said she’d sleep with me ‘when hell freezes over’. Seeing as this has not happened, we can therefore that conclude that Hell is indeed expanding at a slower rate than the number of souls entering it.”
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August 24th, 2006 at 6:37 am
Ahh…nothing like a great Pascal’s Wager cartoon to start my Thursday off right. “Lakes of fire”, “garments of fire”…what’s with the fire fixation? Where’s the drowning in tar? I think it’d suck to drown in tar. Or flaying alive. Man, what I’d do to avoid being flayed alive.
August 26th, 2006 at 7:52 am
Won’t the scalding water put out the garments of fire? Personally I think hell is other people, stupid people.
August 27th, 2006 at 9:33 am
On a similar subject…
Koran 18:28-30
> For the wrongdoers We have prepared a fire which will encompass
> them like the walls of a pavilion. When they cry out for help
> they shall be showered with water as hot as molten brass,
> which will scald their faces
The melting point of brass is around 900 degrees Celcius and water vapourises at 100C. It may be possible to super-heat steam under extreme pressure to the temperature of ‘molten brass’, I don’t know - but you certainly couldn’t ’shower’ anyone with it. Additionally, in such an ultra-high-temperature-pressure state, I suspect the water would do substantially more damage than ’scald their faces’!
August 27th, 2006 at 2:57 pm
Koran 76:1-5
> For the unbelievers We have prepared chains and fetters and a blazing
> Fire…
If it is fire, iron would head up and expand so the chains would permenantly expand?
August 28th, 2006 at 5:08 am
Reminds me of the old Dave Allen joke; a preacher was describing the torments of hell, concluding that,
‘“In Hell there will be wailing and weeping and gnashing of teeth.â€
“What if you don’t have teeth?†asks an elderly parishioner.
“ Teeth will be provided,â€
September 6th, 2006 at 8:11 am
Perhaps you have all seen the following:
Thermodynamics Of Hell
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, lets 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.
It was not revealed what grade the student got.
July 20th, 2007 at 4:31 am
pascal…
Nice one !…
November 29th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
the version of that story i saw had an even funnier ending, cos the student rounded off with something along the following lines.
“… and Laura Jones said she’d sleep with me ‘when hell freezes over’. Seeing as this has not happened, we can therefore that conclude that Hell is indeed expanding at a slower rate than the number of souls entering it.”