The Temperature of Heaven
The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed from
available data.
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 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 one 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 the heat lost by radiation is just equal to the heat
received by radiation, i.e., Heaven loses fifty 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 or 977F).
The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed,
but it must be less than 444.6C, the temperature at
which brimstone or sulphur changes from a liquid to a
gas. 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, or 444.6C (832.28F)
(Above this point it would be a vapor, not a lake.)
We have, then, that Heaven, at 525C (977F) is
hotter than Hell at 445C (832.28F).
-- "Applied Optics", vol. 11, A14, 1972
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