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HEAVEN 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°K (273+27).

This gives H the absolute temperature of heaven, as 798° K (525°C, 979°F).

The exact temperature of hell cannot be computed but it must be less than 444.6°C, the temperature at which brimstone or sulfur changes from a liquid to a gas. Revelation 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°C. (Above that point, it would be a vapor, not a lake.)

We have then, the temperature of heaven, 525°C (979°F). The temperature of hell, between 115.2 and 445°C (239.4 to 832.3°F). Therefore heaven is hotter than hell.

Applied Optics (1972, 11 A14)

Comments

[akicif.livejournal.com]

I'd want to look at a phase diagram for Sulphur before signing up to that: if you increase the atmospheric pressure, the boiling point goes up.

[pauldrye.livejournal.com]

Though to be fair, it says "light", not "electromagnetic radiation". One would need to ignore the portion of energy received from the Sun that's outside the visible spectrum if Heaven receives that much *light*.

About half of the energy the earth receives isn't visible, so your calc should run:

(H/E)⁴=25

Or 671 Kelvin -- less than the gaseous state of sulfur. Damn!

[capplor.livejournal.com]

You stole that from the Journal of Irreproducible Results didn't you?

They ran all of that (& the static cling strapless gown & several others) almost 30 years ago.

I've used those numbers to show people the fallacy of literalistic belief before.

Thanks for the reminder.