exothermic vs. endothermic

[gold eagle]

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.....

[jcmcb]

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

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[VictorKaum]

LOL this answer is... magic