• Meditation in The Qur'an:  "Perchance they may reflect. Do they not reflect in their own minds, 'Did God create the heavens and the earth?'  There are signs for those who consider." (A hadith about this sura says, "An hour's reflective thought is better than a year's worship.")
• Drug Awareness: where do you fit?
• Females 15 -29 [see fig.2] are the largest HIV category in Qc.
• Education pays off! What do you think about the travel agent in this story?
• Fun-loving Celts: Christians at Lyons in Gaul
• Famous 'black' men
• Language and logic:
• Misleading?  works "like a magnet:"Epil-stop by Igia
• Does the expression, "common knowledge" mean anything at all?
• Science says: Stonehenge is ...
• Jews claim Mecca :  a thought experiment
• Logic, Hell and thermodynamics
BONUS QUESTION on a University of Washington chemistry mid term:  Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?
Most students wrote proofs of their conclusion using Boyle's Law (a gas expands when it cools and conversely, as it cools the volume of a gas increases, and a gas contracts when it heats up and conversely, when it is compressed, it heats up. Therefore, if the volume is constant , so is the temperature -- all things being equal.)

One student, the only one to receive an A, wrote the following:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell changes over time. So, we need to know the rate that souls are moving into Hell and the rate they are leaving.  I think we can safely assume that once a soul goes to Hell, it will not leave.  Therefore, no souls are leaving.

As for how many souls enter Hell, let's look at the different religions ... . 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 [normally] belong to more than one religion, we can project that almost all souls go to Hell.
        With death and birth 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 the 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 proportionately 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. 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 Jane during my Freshman year, that "It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you," and take into account the fact that I still have not succeeded in having sexual relations with her, then, #2 cannot be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and will not freeze.

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