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The Temperature of Heaven and Hell

September 8, 2011

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The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed from available data. Our authority is the Bible: Isiah 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 (49) 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 we receive from the sun, so we can ignore that. With these data we can compute the temperature of Heaven.

The radiation falling on heaven will heat it to the point where 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 is the absolute temperature of the earth (300K). This gives H as 798 K (525 degrees Celcius).

The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed, but it must be less than 444.6 C, the temperature at which brimstone or sulphur changes from liquid to a gas. Revelations 21:8: "But the fearful, and unbelieving ... shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone." A lake of molten brimstone means that its temperature must be below the boiling point.

We have, then, temperature of Heaven 525 C. Temperature of Hell less than 445 C. Therefore, heaven is hotter than Hell.

Borrowed from: http://astro.berkeley.edu/~gmarcy/thermal/tpteacher/jokes/heaven.html

My Nit-pick

Now a minor point of curiosity is if "and the light of the sin shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days." is actually redundant talk, as occasioally happens in that book. If that is the case, we have a mere eight (8) times the radiation. Thus (H/E)^4 = 8. This gives H as 504 K (231 degrees Celcius).

This means Heaven is colder than Hell, but still hot enough to melt tin, ignite wood, auto-ignite pretty much any fuel, boil water, melt salt, etc, etc. Personally 25C is plenty hot...I'll just hang out here.


Another thought occured to me; 'what is the melting point of brimstone?'. The answer; brimstone = sulfer = melting point of 388.36K = 115.21C, so Hell is between 115C and 445C. If your a gambling person, your odds of being hotter in Heaven than Hell are about 35% (116/330), not to bad really.

Hey! This means that there is going to be lakes of fire and brimstone in both Heaven and Hell! Maybe Heaven is the lounge chairs around the lake of sulpher instead of in it???