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The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed. Our
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authority is Isaiah 30:26, "Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as
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the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as
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the light of seven days." Thus Heaven receives from the Moon as much
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radiation as we do from the Sun, and in addition 7*7 (49) times as much
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as the Earth does from the Sun, or 50 times in all. The light we
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receive from the Moon is one 1/10,000 of the light we receive from the
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Sun, so we can ignore that ... The radiation falling on Heaven will
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heat it to the point where the heat lost by radiation is just equal to
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the heat received by radiation, i.e., Heaven loses 50 times as much
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heat as the Earth by radiation. Using the Stefan-Boltzmann law for
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radiation, (H/E)^4 = 50, where E is the absolute temperature of the
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earth (-300K), gives H as 798K (525C). The exact temperature of Hell
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cannot be computed ... [However] Revelations 21:8 says "But the
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fearful, and unbelieving ... shall have their part in the lake which
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burneth with fire and brimstone." A lake of molten brimstone means
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that its temperature must be at or below the boiling point, 444.6C. We
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have, then, that Heaven, at 525C is hotter than Hell at 445C.
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-- From "Applied Optics" vol. 11, A14, 1972
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