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Monday, April 30, 2007
00:22
was packing my old file and i uncovered something i've kept for many many years...how many years i dunno...maybe since sec sch? i remembered it was the time i first learnt about thermodynamics and i came across this article...and kept it ever since...
Thermodynamics of Hell (or "how hot is it in hell?")
A thermodynamics professor wrote a take-home exam for his graduate students.
It had one question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat), or endothermic (absorbs heat)?
Support your answer with proof.
Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (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 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.
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 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 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:
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. 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 Therese Banyan during my freshman year that "it will be a cold night 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, the 2. cannot be true, and so Hell is exothermic.
This student got the only A.
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Saturday, April 21, 2007
10:55
realised the last time i blogged was eons ago...
well been too bz with design this sem i hardly had time for any other stuffs...
sometimes i wonder if i really had to spend so much time on it...i dun think so...i just waste alot of time stoning and worrying and just wasting time overall...
it was a really terrible sem...really terrible...but fun actually...the times in studio, in dds, rushing model etc....fun...but terrible...
lots of times i just wanted to break down and cry..and just give up and stop doing....gave me countless headaches, neckaches, backaches, stomachaches, and feverish symptoms....i dunno how i survived this whole thing...
i'm glad i had the support of friends who kept me going....well, i think working hard with people do spur u on sometimes...and it feels good to just help each other...and i'm glad these pple actually tolerated my wierd cranky ways in the middle of the night...just wanted to apologize for all the bottle throwing, table slamming and loud groanings....
so crit is over...i'm glad...i just dun wanna get called by riba...really..pray hard...
its just studying for e last paper now....and i have no mood at all...it feels like time suddenly stopped..yet it is actually fleeting past without u knowing it....
i feel so drained suddenly that i just wanna lie and slp and slp and slp...
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