Hell?

Found this posting and thought I would share, even though I dont believe in "hell". ;-)

Hope some folks here enjoy the humor in my posting it tho! (if not at least laugh that

I cant figure out how to center or preview, etc. my blog posts-lol)

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The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid term.

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

 two 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."

THIS STUDENT RECEIVED AN A+.