[funboy]

>The following is an actual bonus question given on a University of
>Washington Chemistrey exam at mid-term:
>
>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 thereof.
>
>The answer by one student was so "Profound" that the professor
>shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course,
>why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well.
>
>The student wrote the following:
>
>"First, we need to know how the mass of hell is changing
over 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 into hell, it will not leave.
>Therefore, no souls are leaving.
>
>As far how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different
>religions that exist in thw 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 the 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 durning 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 slslept with her
>last night, then number two must be true.
Thus I am sure that Hell
>is exothermic and has already frozen over.
>
>"The conrollary 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,  and thereby providing the
>existence of a
>Divine Being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting,
>"Oh my God!!!"
>
>The student received the only A in the class

[renu]

  Simply wonderful answer. I will give him A² for this

[constant thinker]

That's one of those things that you have to speculate on the validity of it. Funny none the less though.