: 
: If anyone has been in a thermo class, this should make you laugh...	
: 
: 
: Allegedly a true story.  A thermodynamics professor had written a take 
: home exam for his graduate students.   It had one question:
:  
:          Is hell exothermic or endothermic?
:          Support your answer with a proof.
:  
: Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law or
some 
: variant. One student, however wrote the following:
:  
: First, we postulate that if souls exist, then they must have some mass.
: 
: If they do, then a mole of souls can also have a mass.  So, at what rate
are 
: souls moving into hell and at what rate are souls 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 souls entering hell, lets look at the different religions that
exist in 
: the world today. Some of these religions state that  if you are not a 
: member of their religion, you  will go to hell.
:  
: Since there are more than one of these religions and people do not belong

: to more than one religion, we can project that all people and 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 in volume in hell. Boyle's Law states 
: that in order  for the temperature and pressure in hell to stay the same,

: the ratio of the mass of souls and volume needs to stay constant.
: 
: So, 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.
: 
: Of course, if hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of
souls in 
: hell, than the temperature and pressure will drop until hell freezes
over.
:  
: >>>>>>It was not revealed what grade the student got.
: 
: ----- End of forwarded message from Danielle Lienau -----