Title: Temperature of Heaven
 
 Temperature of Heaven
 
 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 one 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-Boltzmann 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 ... shall 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
 
 

Wil Stark, wstark04 (at) pobox _dot_com

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