Is Heaven Hotter than Hell?

According to the Bible, as calculated in the August 1972 issue of Applied Optics:

The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed from  available data. Our authority is the Bible: Isaiah 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 the Earth does from  the Sun and in addition seven times seven (forty-nine) 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 the 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

where E is the absolute temperature of the Earth: 300K. This gives H as 798K absolute (525°C).

The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed but it must be less  than 444.6°C, the temperature at which brimstone or sulfur changes from a  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, which is 444.6°C. (Above that point it would be a vapor,  not a lake.)

It’s not clear to me whether Isaiah chapter 30 is describing Heaven or “Zion at Jerusalem” – fulltext of the chapter here.

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