From mov@ai.mit.edu Fri Jun 18 09:07:25 1993 Return-Path: From: mov@ai.mit.edu (Manuela Vasilescu) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 93 18:40:05 EDT To: all-ai Subject: GSB Friday, June 18, 5:30 pm. 7th floor playroom ************************************************************************ ----- TALK ----- TALK ----- TALK ----- TALK ------TALK ----- TALK ------ ************************************************************************ HOT REAL ESTATE! Abstract 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 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-Boltzman 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 21:8 says "But the fearful and unbelieving will 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 Since neither Heaven nor Hell can provide relief from the summer weather we will congregate in the 7th floor playroom for a serious and in depth discussion which will not be hindered by sobriety. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Location: NE43 (AI-Lab 7th floor playroom) Time: Friday, June 18, 1993, 5:30 p.m. Patron Saint: Patrick Winston! --------------------------------------------------------------------------