SiDHEaD

Amused me! I wholely expect it to be SIAL !

The following is supposedly an actual question given on a
University of Washington 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 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."

Jamo

iTrader: (23)

dont know if its sial, but i hope he got an A+ for that answer, very very clever.

john_s

iTrader: (1)

Don't know if it's achieved SIAL status, but it's one of the "urban legends" that's been touring the internet almost since the evolution of TCP/IP.

Still funny though!

John.

Regacy

New to me.
LMAO

green my99

http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/hell.asp

fast bloke

"Its roots, however, are far older: an unattributed parody of a scientific proof concluding Heaven was hotter than Hell appeared in a 1972 edition of Applied Optics, a story found in a 1962 book (reprinted from a 1960 magazine"

STi wanna Subaru

iTrader: (1)

That's one for the dinner party

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

Aye 'tis an oldie....pre-dates SN I think

It's a good one non-the-less