The definition of what Hell is

[Bill Prawn]

This has possibly been posted before but after reading Angie's English thread here I thought it needed an airing:more:

 

The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid term examination paper. The answer was so "profound" that the professor shared it with colleagues, which is 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, which is that "gas cools off when it expands and heats up 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 that souls are moving into Hell and the rate 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, 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 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 as souls are added.

 

This gives two possibilities:

 

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, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it?

 

If we accept the postulate given to me by Ms. Teresa Banyan 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 still have not succeeded in having sexual relations with her, then option 2 cannot be true, and thus 1 am sure that Hell is exothermic and will not freeze.

 

The student received the only A.

[jamesmark]

for once i actually understood science that was a cool answer,

 

there was once an artical in a paper of similar context, an exam and it had one simple question to explain in less than x amount of words and the question was ...........EXPLAIN CONFIDENCE, WHAT IS CONFIDENCE.

 

 

there was lots of students that wrote loads and continued on a seperate sheet but one student wrote one sentance compared to all other and his answer was

 

"This is Confidence"

thats all he wrote for the whole paper, the student got top marks for that question

[tbourner]

I've seen that before and it is really good.

 

 

It's fake though, obviously.

[Jake]

Yeah, fake.

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

[JohnA]

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