exothermic vs. endothermic

I realize this is a question you may have been asked in a college philosophy class or maybe even high school but I'd like to see how you answer this question:

Is hell exothermic or endothermic?


:D

Hell dosent exist.

;)

I think that makes it nonthermic

;)

LOL this endothermic / exothermic question was asked at an exam at our university in the first year BA physics... (I don't know the prof was j/k)

I'm not about to get into the thermodynamics of it... not deeply, but the first question is, does hell have any flow of matter or energy with the 'real' world? Do souls count? Is it only souls into hell? Do souls get out? Does hell have mass? If it has no mass, it can have no temperature, therefore the question makes no sense..... etc.

Well, I don't believe in God/hell, but theoretically hell wouldn't be emitting or taking in heat, it would just be keeping it's current heat.

Well aside from the fact that the location 'hell' doesn't exist. The question was meant to show how creative you are in your answers. Obviously I neglected to mention that....

It doesn't matter what you believe in, it's just a question.

So? Now what do you say?

Well, we're told that hell is full of Fire, Brimstone and burning sulphur. Now Fire can be assumed to be a wholly Exothermic reaction, unless it's some sort of eeevil anti-fire ;) Now Brimstone is to do with molten rock, to melt rock you have to heat it, an endothermic "reaction" of sorts. (I don't think melting rocks can count as a reaction) As for burning sulphur. an entirely exothermic reaction once the activation energy requirements have been met. So it appears that the Net Thermal "Exos and endos" thingey probably breaks even... Here's a similar one, does hell give an overall increase in Entropy or a decrease?

Exothermic and endothermic I don't know about, but I read a study about a year ago and some scientists had determined that the average temperature of hell is about 1100 degrees. What I want to know is what exactly they used to come up with their information? :D
Who volunteered to do research on that? Did they actually send someone to hell to test it? Or do they rely on some one who has a connection to the dead to poll people who were already in hell to get their opinions?
Just curious....lol!

I would like to point out that hell is in Iceland. So it's cold and hot, no?

Iceland is not hell, unless of course the most beautiful woman in the world lives in hell.....

No, I said hell is in Iceland, not Iceland is hell. You will see a tiny town called Hell. It's there, on the island of Iceland. Since the whole island is warmed by volcanic heat that would make it.....

I remeber a physics teacher of mine asking this questions, and posting the following answer (which I found on Google)...

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, 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, then (2) cannot be true, and thus I am
sure that Hell is exothermic.

http://www.americaworks.net/idiots/hell.html

Question Solved!

LOL this answer is... magic