[extropy-chat] Hell

[Kevin Freels]

Nice work! lol :-)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alfio Puglisi" <puglisi at arcetri.astro.it>
To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Hell


>
> 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
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