[TowerTalk] Hy-Gain Rotators

[Jim Reid]

Ed wrote,  in part:

>It will be a cold day in hell before I buy again from MFJ.

What about the temperature in hell?  From a recent University
midterm exam:

"University of Washington chemistry midterm:
 
  "Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic 
(absorbs heat)?
 Support your answer with a proof."
 
  Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using 
Boyle's Law (gas cools off when it expands and heats up 
when it is compressed) or some variant.  One student, 
however, wrote the following:
 
  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.  Most 
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. (Watch Larry King's show yesterday?)
 
  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 so Hell
is  exothermic.

  This student got the only A in the class."

73,  Jim,  KH7M




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