It seems that two of the most popular themes for jokes is Heaven and Hell. Here are two of my favorites:
A thermodynamics professor had written a take home exam for his graduate students. It had one question: "Is hell exothermic or endothermic? Support your answer with a proof."
Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law or some variant. One student, however wrote the following:
First, we postulate that if souls exist, then they must have some mass. If they do, then a mole of souls can also have a mass. So, at what rate are souls moving into hell and at what rate are souls 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 souls entering hell, lets look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Some 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 people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all people and all souls go to hell.
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 in volume in hell. Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in hell to stay the same, the ratio of the mass of souls to volume needs to stay constant. So, 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.
Of course, if hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in hell, than the temperature and pressure will drop until hell freezes over.
It was not revealed what grade the student got.
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*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 (300K), gives H as 798K
(525C).
The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed ... [However] Revelations 2:18 says
"But the fearful, and unbelieving ...
shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone." A lake of
molten brimstone means that its
temperature must be at or below the boiling point, 444.6C. We have, then, that Heaven, at
525C is hotter than Hell at 445C.
-- From "Applied Optics" vol. 11, A14, 1972