This stuff makes me glad I was a History and Anthropology major. At least I can stick to the theoretical permutations of this question without giving myself a headache.
This document reproduces two classics of science parody/humor. The first appeared in Applied Optics (1972, 11 A14). It applies the physics of thermodynamics to conclude that Heaven is hotter than Hell. The second is a response which combines Biblical evidence with thermodynamics to argue that, while heaven is devilishly hot, hell it hotter still. It appeared in the Journal of Irreproducible Results in 1979. While the first paper is well known, and available many places on the www, the follow up isn't as well known. It is included here, for the first time on the net, in the interest of fairly presenting both sides of this burning debate on a hot issue.
OK, I'll admit it. As soon as I ran across the Ideal Gas Equation, I was done for....
(Thanks to Gerard Vlemmings)
