[extropy-chat] Hell

[Alfio Puglisi]

I once found this, somewhere on Usenet:

EAVEN IS HOTTER THAN HELL

  "The temperature of heaven can be rather accurately computed. Our
authority is the Bible:

Isaiah 30:26 reads, "Moreover, the light of the moon shall be as the light
of the sun and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold as the light of
seven days."

Thus, heaven receives from the moon as much radiation as the earth does
from the sun, and in addition seven times seven (forty nine) times as much
as the earth does from the sun, or fifty times in all. The light we
receive from the moon is one ten-thousandth of the light we receive from
the sun, so we can ignore that. With these data we can compute the
temperature of heaven: The radiation falling on heaven will heat it to the
point where the heat lost by radiation is just equal to the heat received
by radiation. In other words, heaven loses fifty times as much heat as the
earth by radiation. Using the Stefan-Boltzmann fourth power law for
radiation:

     (H/E)^4 = 50 where E is the absolute temperature of the earth,
     300 degrees K (273+27). This gives H, the absolute temperature
     of heaven, as 798 degrees absolute (525 degrees C).

The exact temperature of hell cannot be computed but it must be less than
444.6 degrees C, the temperature at which brimstone or sulfur changes from
a liquid to a gas.

Revelations 21:8: "But the fearful and unbelieving... shall have their
part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone."

A lake of molten brimstone [sulfur] means that its temperature must be at
or below the boiling point, which is 444.6 degrees C. (Above that point,
it would be a vapor, not a lake.)

We have then, temperature of heaven, 525 degrees C (977 degrees F).
Temperature of hell, less than 444.6 degrees C (832.3 degrees F).

Therefore heaven is hotter than hell."


Ciao,
Alfio