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Thread #49551   Message #751295
Posted By: Micca
19-Jul-02 - 06:31 PM
Thread Name: BS: Science Fiction : Science Fact
Subject: RE: BS: Science Fiction : Science Fact
As promised earlier..
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 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 a ten-thousandth of the light from the Sun, so we can ignore that. With this 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 s the absolute temperature of the Earth-300K
This gives H 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 or sulphur changes from a liquid to a gas. Revelations 21:8 "But the fearful and unbelieving… shall have their part in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone. A lake of Molten brimstone means that its temperature must be below the boiling point which is 44.6 degrees C( above this temperature it would be a vapour not a lake
We have ,then,
the temperature of Heaven 525 degrees Celsius
The temperature of Hell    445 degrees Celsius
Therefore, Heaven is hotter than Hell
From " a Random walk in Science"