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A thermodynamics professor had written a take home exam for his
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graduate students. It had one question:
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"Is hell exothermic or endothermic? Support your answer with a proof."
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Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law or
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some variant. One student, however wrote the following:
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First, we postulate that if souls exist, then they must have some mass.
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If they do, then a mole of souls can also have a mass. So, at what rate
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are souls moving into hell and at what rate are souls leaving? I think
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that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to hell, it will not
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leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving.
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As for souls entering hell, lets look at the different religions that
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exist in the world today. Some of these religions state that if you are
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not a member of their religion, you will go to hell. Since, there are
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more than one of these religions and people do not belong to more than
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one religion, we can project that all people and all souls go to hell.
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With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of
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souls in hell to increase exponentially.
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Now, we look at the rate of change in volume in hell. Boyle's Law
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states that in order for the temperature and pressure in hell to stay
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the same, the ratio of the mass of souls and volume needs to stay
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constant.
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So, if hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls
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enter hell, then the temperature and pressure in hell will increase
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until all hell breaks loose.
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Of course, if hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of
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souls in hell, than the temperature and pressure will drop until hell
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freezes over.
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It was not revealed what grade the student got.
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