“Paul Darwin Foote (1888–83197153ya) § The Temperature of Heaven & Hell”, 1979 ():
…An insight into Paul Foote’s broader interests and into his light good humor can be gleaned from some of his writings.
1920 he published anonymously in the Taylor Instrument Company house organ a paper on “The Temperature of Heaven and Hell”. By making scientific deductions from descriptions of the states of various material substances as described in the Bible, Foote concluded that Heaven was hotter than Hell.
The paper, or portions of it, are periodically reprinted—for example, in the journal Applied Optics (197252ya)—but all have attributed the paper to an anonymous source. Nevertheless, a copy of the original manuscript with Paul Foote’s notations identifying himself as the author was found in his personal file after his death.
[cf. rebuttal, 2001, Snopes, “Theological Engineering Exam”]