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) 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 <http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/hell.htm>Applied Optics, vol.
11, A14, 1972
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