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*The following is an actual question given on a University of
Arizona chemistry midterm exam, and an actual answer turned in by a student.
*
*The answer was so profound that the professor shared it with his
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<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyle%27s_Law>(gas cools when it
expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant
of the law. *
*One student, however, wrote the following:*
*Fi**rst, 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, which is unlikely. 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+.*
I would love to know what happened to this brilliant iconoclast. Has he
ever come forward and identified himself?
H/t FOTM's igor! :D
*~Eowyn*
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