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October 05, 2005
Afterlife Weather Forecast
We've all heard the expression, "Hotter than Hell" but have you ever wondered just how hot that is? Using evidence from the Holy Scriptures, it is possible to calculate just how hot Hell can be, and as a bonus how hot Heaven will be too! The results may surprise you!
The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed. Our authority is Isaiah 30:26, "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 x 7 (49) times as much as the Earth does from the Sun, or 50 times in all. The light we receive from the Moon is one 1/10,000 of the light we receive from the Sun, so we can ignore that. 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, i.e., Heaven loses 50 times as much heat as the Earth by radiation. Using the Stefan-Boltzmann law for radiation, (H/E)^4 = 50, where E is the absolute temperature of the earth (-300ºK), gives H as 798ºK (525ºC).
The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed. However, Revelation 21:8 says "But the fearful, and unbelieving ... shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone." A lake of molten brimstone [sulphur] means that its temperature must be at or below its boiling point, 444.6ºC.
We have, then, that Heaven, at 525ºC is hotter than Hell at 445ºC.
One can assume that the temperature in Heaven will fluctuate slghtly based on the eccentricity of the orbits of the Moon and Earth.
Posted by at October 5, 2005 11:19 AM
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"It was my understanding there would be no math."
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Posted by: Slublog at October 5, 2005 11:45 AM
That would be Hell, of course. Heaven is all math, all the time.Obviously I didn't catch the reference.
Posted by: MainiacJoe at October 5, 2005 01:13 PM
It's from SNL - a debate skit with Chevy Chase. I tend to use it when math starts to hurt my brain.
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