The Storm, The Rage, The Tranquility

“When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade”

My current motto to keep me going through the rough bumps in life – because anyone with the will and ability can and will succeed with persistence and ingenuity. AZA AZZA HWAITING!!

"In the darkness, Hope shines even brighter"

To celebrate the wonderful confusion of thermodynamics, here are some light relief:

“Thermodynamics is a funny subject. The first time you go through it, you don’t understand it at all. The second time you go through it, you think you understand it, except for one or two small points. The third time you go through it, you know you don’t understand it, but by that time you are so used to it, it doesn’t bother you any more.” – Arnold Sommerfeld

Hell and Thermodynamics

A thermodynamics professor had written a take home exam for his graduate students. It had one question:
“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 & 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 times, we need to know the rate that souls are moving into Hell & the rate they are leaving. I think 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, 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 since 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 of 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 Theresa Banyan during my Freshman year, “That will be a cold night in Hell before I sleep with you” , and taking into account the fact that I still have not succeeded in having sexual relations with her, then #2 cannot be true. So Hell is EXOTHERMIC

The student got the only “A”.

Link – http://www.astbury.org/humour/hell.htm

Section 1.1: The Exams

Hello, I am the The Misc. Manual To Life. There is nothing truly deep about this blog, other than life lessons learned the hard way, reviews and random thoughts, in addition to quirky stories and happenings. In the end, those are the things that will stick in your mind before it’s over.

This is how my preparation is going so far:

- 5 days to review one subject, ignoring the other 3.

- Watching ‘Claymore’ (a Japanese Anime) online

- Watching/listening to podcasts: The Chaser’s War on Everything, Musichead interviews,  Hamish and Andy – v.v.v.v.v. funny

- Organising my Ipod (yes, I’m an ipoder!)

- Youtubing funny clips

- Other non-productive time wasters, including making ALOT of the hot-chocolates!

So thus begin my time of productivity… I hope.