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Hell 26 02 2004 THERMODYNAMICS OF HELL The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid term. The answer by one professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well. Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)? (Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law, (gas cools off when it expands and heats up when it is compressed) or some variant. One student, however, wrote the following): "First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate that souls are moving into Hell and the rate they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Some of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there are more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added. This gives two possibilities: 1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose. 2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over. So which is it? If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa Morrison, during my freshman year, "...that it will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you," and take into account the fact that I still have not succeeded in having sexual relations with her, then #2 cannot be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and will not freeze." The student received the only "A" given.

Black Sun sound like the voices of angels to me. Perhaps the annihilating voice of Gabriel. Iit'll probably be a lot more discordant to anyone else looking for love songs.

Dear Friends Black Sun return to Dr Drakes Bar on Saturday 6th March 2004 support by Edinburgh's Silver Pill and local Aberdeen band TBC. ? Time? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.crediblenoisefest.co.uk/ "...BLACK SUN generate an ambiance of doom and dirge that's more like the direct communication of pain and suffering than the playing of songs. Rattling bass, slow upsetting rhythms, nauseating guitar work and disturbing vocals incorporating screams, shouts, whispers and squeaks, BLACK SUN were a monumental addition to the festival line-up. Their tremendous closer marked the end of a set that no doubt had everyone feeling some type of strong emotion. Original and standout, their sound-scape style was in a league of its own and not just when compared to the rest of the festival's line-up..."

Thanks to everyone who came to Dr Drakes last night. We at Black Sun had a great time and I hope we will be invited back to your fair city sometime. I was blown away by Useful Idiot's TOOL tribute. If that was Fall of Boss Koala with flu I'm REALLY looking forward to seeing them at Credible Noise at full strength. "Astounding!" said the Gruffalo. Jesus Elephant God (got their name from someone else's bad acid trip). Hypodermic hypnotic like a shot in the arm. Commiserations to Element 106 for all their technical difficulties. Next time Russell

fleshmarket reviewed by ronnie kerswell of rock sound (http://www.rock-sound.net/) Those who remember the experimental, way-ahead-of-their-time offerings of Irish art-fuckers Virgin Prunes (check out 'Over The Rainbow') will be interested to note the teeth-grinding disturbance on offer from Glasgow's Black Sun (aka Russell McEwan). Spanning ambience, industrial and noise, 'Fleshmarket' is a disconcerting affair that recalls Godflesh, Swans and contemporary masters of resonance, SunnO)). There's the down-tuned horror of 'Trawl', the morbid death rattle of 'Obscenity', with its evil call of "impure", and the creepy operation of 'Flesh Project'. Black Sun's low resonations put everything into perspective; your world just got a hell of a lot more sinister. 9 out of 10

Dear soon to be Friends in Aberdeen After our gig at Drakes on the 28th Black Sun are looking for somewhere to stay. If anyone has space for three (or four depending on psychoses) Glasgow gentlemen then please make yourself known at the gig and have a 'song' dedicated to you. Thank you Russell

re: Black hole I think there might even be a hint of humour in the Black hole article. Considering no-one will be able to go there and check it out or even hear it, it's the idea I find kind of entertaining. Thanks Russell

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 Big black holes sing bass. One particularly monstrous black hole has probably been humming B-flat for billions of years, but at a pitch no human could hear, let alone sing, astronomers said Tuesday. THE INTENSITY of the sound is comparable to human speech, said Andrew Fabian of the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge, England. But the pitch of the sound is about 57 octaves below the middle C at the middle of a standard piano keyboard. This is far, far deeper than humans can hear, the researchers said, and they believe it is the deepest note ever detected in the universe. The sound is emanating from the Perseus Cluster, a giant clump of galaxies 250 million light-years from Earth. A light-year is about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion kilometers), the distance light travels in a year. Fabian and his colleagues used NASAs orbiting Chandra X-Ray Observatory to investigate X-rays coming from the clusters heart. Researchers presumed that a supermassive black hole, with perhaps 2.5 billion times the mass of our sun, lay there, and the activity around the center bolstered this assumption. Black holes are powerful matter-sucking drains in space, and astronomers believe most galaxies, including our own Milky Way, may contain black holes at their centers. Black holes have not been directly observed, because their gravitational pull is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape it. So researchers have concentrated on what happens around the edges of black holes, just before the matter is pulled in. When scientists trained the Chandra observatory on the center of Perseus last year, they saw concentric ripples in the cosmic gas that fills the space between the galaxies in the cluster. Were dealing with enormous scales here, Fabian said in a telephone interview. The size of these ripples is 30,000 light-years. Fabian said the ripples were caused by the rhythmic squeezing and heating of the cosmic gas by the intense gravitational pressure of the jumble of galaxies packed together in the cluster. As the black hole pulls material in, he said, it also creates jets of material shooting out above and below it, and it is these powerful jets that create the pressure that creates the sound waves. Top scientists, he said, pressure ripples equate to sound waves. By calculating how far apart the ripples were, and how fast sound might travel there, the team of researchers determined the musical note of the sound. Fabian said the notion of singing black holes might well be extrapolated to other galaxies, but not necessarily to the Milky Way. Chandra has looked at X-ray emissions from the Milky Ways center, and astronomers believe there is a black hole there, but because it is a young, rambunctious galaxy with lots of activity at its heart, this may interfere with any note our black hole might sing, Fabian said. (reuters)

Jesus Elephant God, whom we were blown away by at this year's RevoltFest, have kindly asked Black Sun to join the bill at Dr Drakes on Sunday 28th September. Black Sun are aggresively in slow motion. Relentlessly pounding, unforgiving and unforgiven. Last seen playing drums for Macrocosmica, being part of Los Angeles based performance artist group Ron Athey & Co, remixing tracks by Mogwai and DeSalvo and producing videos for Arab Strap. New album "Fleshmarket" available from One Up and Fopp. www.over-records.com My favourite sport is masturbation although it's more of a vocational thing really. I'm really good at it though and I should have got a degree for it. I like steak and I have a direct debit set up at my local butchers. I hope to see a few of you there. Sincerely Russell McEwan