stekas@houxy.UUCP (10/04/83)
For the consolation of some of us who may not be spending eternity in
paradise, I'm posting a proof from "Applied Optics" (II, A14, 1972) that-
Heaven is hotter than Hell
The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed from
available data. 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 we
do from the Sun, and in addition 7 times 7 (49) times as much as
the Earth does from the Sun, or 50 times in all. ... 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 50 times as much heat as the Earth by radiation.
Using the Stefan-Boltzmann fourth-power law for radiation
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(H/E) = 50,
where E is the absolute temperature of the Earth -- 300K.
This gives H, the temperature of Heaven, as 798K (525 degrees Celsius).
The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed but it must
be less than 444.6 degrees Celsius, the temperature at which
brimstone (sulphur) 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 brim-
stone means that its temperature must be below the boiling point,
which is 444.6 degrees Celsius. (Above this point it would be a
vapor, not a lake.)
We have, then, temperature of Heaven, 525 degrees Celsius. Temperature
of Hell, less than 445 degrees Celsius. Therefore, Heaven is hotter
than Hell.
Jimkwmc@hou5d.UUCP (10/04/83)
The proof that heaven is hotter than hell, does depend on the assumption
that hell is not pressurised, and that the crowns and white robes of people
in heaven absorb, rather than reflect the energy falling on them.
:-) kwmc!hou5dCSvax:Pucc-H:Physics:els@pur-ee.UUCP (10/04/83)
You misinterpret the Isaiah verse. It said, in effect, that the light
from the sun would go up by a factor of 7, NOT 49! That stuff about 7 days
was just restating the factor of 7.
els{Eric Strobel}
pur-ee!Physics:els