Is Hell Exothermic or Endothermic?

Re:Is Hell Exothermic or Endothermic? by eru on Sunday September 07, 2008 @03:02PM (#297649)

Richard Davisson (of Manhattan Project fame): "There are no physicists in the hottest parts of Hell, because the existence of a 'hottest part' implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of Hell comfortably cool. This is obviously impossible."

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Re:Is Hell Exothermic or Endothermic? by hugh on Sunday September 07, 2008 @09:47PM (#297889)

Since the local temperature maxima and minima are the only places without a temperature gradient, it seems logical that the physicists would have to be confined to the hottest parts.

Well, that or the coolest parts. But I suspect the hottest parts, as an additional punishment for trying to game the system.

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Re:Is Hell Exothermic or Endothermic? by eru on Monday September 08, 2008 @08:37AM (#298232)

I like your reply more than the quote I stole.

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