Is Hell exothermic or Endothermic?
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That.... is.... genius.
I had a similar question in a philosophy paper at University. I don't remember the details but essentially it was a moral question, should you save someone about to be hit by a train. The question was, Why should you save him? The person who got the best marks simply write 'Why not'.
I had a similar question in a philosophy paper at University. I don't remember the details but essentially it was a moral question, should you save someone about to be hit by a train. The question was, Why should you save him? The person who got the best marks simply write 'Why not'.
I heard a similar story about my own school although I'm not sure if it was true:Horned Rat said:
For their final exams, a class was supposed to write a text about the following topic: "What is courage?"
And a guy wrote "Handing in this paper empty.", leaving the rest of the pages empty.
Supposedly garnering him an A, but I doubt that's true.
I know a guy who did something similar. He turned up to an exam, wrote his name on the front page and left in half an hour without opening the exam once.Skeleon said:
Although, I'm fairly sure he didn't get an A cause it was a maths exam.
Lies!LockHeart said:
Philosophy professors actually hate those kind of answers really horribly. They actually really hate it when you think and try to interject your ideas into the paper. I know because I tried something like that once (you know, putting my own opinion into a paper). Luckily my prof didn't fail me outright, but made me redo the paper again.
Unless you're studying Physics or Math, you don't want to be creative in school. Being creative is pretty much the only guaranteed way to fail a class.
wait, this sounds backward, aren't you supposed to be creative in psychology and philosophy, and in math/physics...not? I mean, theoretical stuff always need some creative thinking(even math) but in the end you still have a set way to determine things with math/physics.olicon said:
Hehe, pretty amusing, but of course I'd have to call shenanigans on the answer and probably the whole essay. Call me a stickler but the person got the laws wrong, they would be using the Combined Gas Law for the relation of Pressure, Temperature, and Volume all at once (Boyle's Law deals only with the inverse relationship of Pressure and volume when temperature is kept constant) and this would only work if the amount of gas was kept constant. Since souls are coming in, the amount is increasing, which would render the Combined Gas Law void unless he does some gas stoichiometry to figure the mass of the souls and how they impact the relation of the pressure, volume, and temperature of Hell.
In fact, you wouldn't even need to use gas laws to determine if Hell is exothermic or endothermic. You would have to determine whatever sort of reaction would be occurring in Hell (impossible seeing as it's not given in the question) and would need to be able to find out if the products of this reaction release or take in energy. In fact, the question is completely impossible to answer since there is no information given whatsoever, as one cannot assume all the test takers are familiar with "Hell" and if they were, it is considered a mythical place in which the laws of science would have no meaning.
Nice answer, pretty funny, but too bad the question is moot and the science behind the supposed answer is illogical.
Science is serious business.
In fact, you wouldn't even need to use gas laws to determine if Hell is exothermic or endothermic. You would have to determine whatever sort of reaction would be occurring in Hell (impossible seeing as it's not given in the question) and would need to be able to find out if the products of this reaction release or take in energy. In fact, the question is completely impossible to answer since there is no information given whatsoever, as one cannot assume all the test takers are familiar with "Hell" and if they were, it is considered a mythical place in which the laws of science would have no meaning.
Nice answer, pretty funny, but too bad the question is moot and the science behind the supposed answer is illogical.
Science is serious business.
Ahh I love that story...it reminds me of another one that I heard a while back.
Some college class (I can't remember what the subject was) is taking their final super exam. They get the exam and there is only one question on it, "Define bravery". While everyone started working, one student jotted something down, handed in the paper and left the room. Under "Define Bravery" the student wrote "This is".
Some college class (I can't remember what the subject was) is taking their final super exam. They get the exam and there is only one question on it, "Define bravery". While everyone started working, one student jotted something down, handed in the paper and left the room. Under "Define Bravery" the student wrote "This is".