Fold Paper 42 times: You WONT BELIEVE how thick it gets 😱
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- Опубликовано: 19 авг 2024
- If you fold a paper in half 42 times, it would be so thick that it would reach the moon.
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And if you manage to make it 103 fold , it passes the lines of the known universe.
Haha
@@Mahesh_Shenoy Well its real , it actually stands for math . 0.5 . 2 = 1
1 . 2 = 2
2 . 2 = 4
ETC. goes to until 103. Time . And it’s a huge number that i can’t spell
@@Sportsman12356 Yes yes, absolutely!
That Will Be 8000000000000000000000000km
@@CarlTheRUclipsr10k The known universe is about 93 Light years . And a single light year is about 9 trillion km .
1. Initial thickness of a standard paper: approximately 0.1 mm (depending on the paper type)
2. After 1 fold: 0.1 mm x 2 = 0.2 mm
3. After 2 folds: 0.2 mm x 2 = 0.4 mm
4. ...
42. After 42 folds: 0.1 mm x 2^42 ≈ 439,804,651,110 mm
That's approximately 439,805 kilometers or 273,250 miles!
To put this into perspective, the International Space Station orbits the Earth at an altitude of around 400-450 kilometers (250-280 miles). So, if you were to fold a standard paper 42 times, the thickness would be roughly equivalent to the distance from the Earth's surface to the International Space Station!
Keep in mind that this is a theoretical calculation, as it's impossible to fold a paper 42 times in reality due to its physical properties and the laws of physics. However, it's an interesting thought experiment that demonstrates the power of exponential growth!
Wrong but the math is right,
forget the height... what about width sub atomic...
You right but wrong
Fact: matter can neither be created nor destroyed 😂
"*ferb, i know what were gonna do today! *"
But by then you wouldn’t actually see the paper 💀
On my wayyy to cross the 7th fold
Haha, good luck
@@Mahesh_Shenoy I did 8 folds with a normal sheet of paper
@@Channelname681 cap
@@Kobebryantking24 no
@@Kobebryantking24 I also did it
It’s very hard but possible
I maybe near 9 folds but I doubt I can do that
Me thinking i can fold it 42 time:
If i will fold 42th fold I'm going to reach moon Free of cost 😅😅
Haha!
Ya sure...have fun up there without any oxygen, theres a lot more required to go there than just a spaceship, lol!
@@geetugupta7244 🤓
@@geetugupta7244 no shit, sherlock
@@geetugupta7244also it would extremely thin
And that's where Physics and Mathematics had to be separated
My friend:- how would u reach the moon without rocket
Me:- hold my paper
U: *climbs*
Ur friend: ACHOO *gives the earth a wooping*
U cant fold a paper more than 7
When a katana was folded 42 times it turned a samurai into an anime protagonist.
After 103 folds you'll enter the Multiverse 💀
Relatable 🗿
@@AChristianFellow you've done this before?
@@clip.z ye
@@AChristianFellow Love from multiverse ✌️
Actually you would reach the observable universe
Theoretically the bigger the paper the more folds you can do so if we had a mile by a mile sheet we could fold it at least 35 times
In theory, you can fold a piece of paper more than seven times. However, it becomes increasingly difficult as you fold it more times due to the exponential increase in the paper's thickness. In practice, achieving more than seven folds with a standard-sized sheet of paper is extremely challenging, and it often requires special equipment or very large sheets of paper to accomplish.
This only works if you could continually fold it but some where after 8-10 folds paper stops folding and starts compressing
For those who are saying this is false:-Average paper thickness = 0.1 mm = 1/10° km
Folding 42 times = (242 ÷ 107) km = 439,804 km
Distance of Earth to Moon = 384,000 km
What is the thickness after 42 folds? The distance between the earth and the moon is around 384,400 kilometers (remember 1 km = 1,000,000 mm). After 42 folds, would the paper reach the moon? (439,804,651,110.4 mm = 439,804.7 km, so yes, it would reach the moon because 439,804.7 > 384,400)
"1000 km"
Americans: WTF IS A KILOMITER !!!
LOL google even translated it to miles in the comments!
@@BigDaddyD_Official hakuna
American here. A kilometer is 1,000 meters.
WTF
IS THIS
Me an Australian when I finally get a video with length that I can understand: hehehehe
Though the length will be very much. But the diameter of intersect of the paper will be microscopic
So finally someone has found the question for The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything
My brain commited suicide
Power of conpounding
Just stack 42 pieces of paper on top of each other and that should do it
@Prasai Tenisha he's kidding
@Prasai Tenisha nerd ass
A standard, off the shelf piece of single-sheet printer paper (those ones that come in reams of 500 or so) is around 0.08mm thick. If you fold this piece of paper in half, you're doubling its thickness, from 0.08mm to 0.16mm. Do this 42 times, that is 2^(42), or 4,398,046,500,000.9 Sept 2020
I aint here looking for any equations, I'm looking for an animation to prove it to me
Did you find what you were looking for?
@@Mahesh_Shenoy he was looking for you, a good person,he found you
Bro you can actually reach the moon this stuff is 6th grade stuff
@@sleepy4205 it's nice to have written explanations but a visual representation would make understanding it much more easier
The visualisation you want: 2^n graph where n is the number of folds
It'd be so thin at that point we couldn't see it 😆
The paper thickens as it folds, it doesn’t thin out.
@@The.Inkwell.Alchemist yes it does
You failed to mention that you actually need to
1) find a long enough piece of paper.
2) fold the paper
I mentioned hypothetically. So, I am good :D
No matter the size of the paper, you cant get over 7 folds
@@benwatso Someone got 11 folds i heard it they used paper size of a football field or something.
@@benwatso yes we know but the guy in the video is presenting a HYPOTHETICAL situation
You cannot make that many folds without breaking the paper into pieces
We would need a paper as large as earths surface and then fold it 42 times to reach moon😂😂
Haha, true that
No matter how large the paper is. You can't fold it for more than 7 times.
So 42 is impossible.
For now it is
@@adityaroy389 search mythbusters
They folded a paper as large as a football field for 11 times
didnt believe it until i watched this videos thanks
Damn I didn’t know there was actual science to prove this
what if someone makes a paper large enough to do this
Still not possible, since its the same process of doing it with an A4 size paper.
Watch the video on mythbusting the seven folds, they folded an extremely large paper 10 times and it was wayy wayyy smaller than even the actual paper
Pov: Telephone scammer is trying to explain why you should give him your credit card details.
Only math geniuses can solve
Thats unbelievable...freaking crrraaazyyy🤯
I know right?
Is it even possible to fold a paper 42 times.
No he said hypothetically
It is hard /kinda impossible to get more than 7 folds in a normal paper
Funfact : you cant fold a paper more than 8 times
Bro speaking English like an Indian guy 😂😂
They patched the glitch💀💀💀💀
The distance between the earth and the moon is around 384,400 kilometers (remember 1 km = 1,000,000 mm). After 42 folds, would the paper reach the moon? (439,804,651,110.4 mm = 439,804.7 km, so yes, it would reach the moon because 439,804.7 > 384,400
Nerd
My calculations got 234.22km
Nvm i see my mistake
And if it has area the same as earth area, about 5 hundreds million square kilometres, then it will be much less than the area of your palm after 42 times folding
😮😮🙁.....now I'm not shocked to know that it is also not so far away from sun
its just a stupud trick question kinda thing. the paper wouldn't actually reach the moon.
Ancient Samurai sword makers used this without knowing the math explicitly of course; folding the blade when red hot, hammering it to lengthen it and then repeating the process many times gave them a hard-ductile layering pattern many thousands of layers deep in just a few mm thickness. This hard-soft structure gave their blades unparalleled flexibility and toughness but with the hardness necessary to hold a razor-sharp edge.
Ah yes 42, the answer to life, the universe, and everything.
Only 46 folds remaining,.. I'll surely made a vlog from moon 🌙
Wait a second, my car has driven 500,000km does that mean I have travelled farther than the moon???
yes
It is impossible to reach the fold 42 times.We will be stuck at very few. Those thick folding edges make it brutal without torning them apart.
But cutting in to half and stacking up is easy to imagine. In this scenerio most important and hilarious is that this would get extremely thin. Cannot manage to climb on it.😅
Scientists: spending millions to go to space
Me: pathetic
😂
Spending millions to buy a piece of paper that large
This guy makes me appreciate math
But the question is how big the paper is?
Nope it will not matter actly
@@NurturingSoul. how so the calculation is made on A4 sheet
The papper would have to be 4trillion kilometers
The papper would have a area of 4trillion kilometers lol
@@jaqueztroy i think you are stuupid
*Now prove it by folding a paper 42 times*
What if you cut it instead of folding it?
But you didn't have to cut it off...
Yes it will work but 1 piece will be so small that the slightest ever gust of wind will knock it down but if they manage to balance it and stabilize then yes it will reach the moon
@@goodccvoid stop acting like you are a scientist. If you fold a piece of paper that many times, it will never reach the moon because it’s not big enough. Not even 1 million pieces of paper can reach the moon, so how would one sheet fold a few times.
@@MrPretzel6000 Are you a scientist
@@MrPretzel6000 it doubles every time br
Now we just need to find a big enough sheet of paper
So, if you are a flat earther it will reach the moon in 11 folds
What if we fold so many papers at max.
I mean one paper can be folded till 6. So, combinning so many papers which is already folded at max each.
No that's not everytime you are combining paper you have to fold it twice of that paper you have taken which is not possible
And if u fold it it would reach the limit of the universe
Here is the solution who don't belive it , let thickness of paper is 0.1mm
2^42 =4398046511104 ÷10000000 = 439804.6511104 km
and the distance of moon from earth is 384000 km
If 42 alone is that tall, then how about 42 billion?
I don’t know if that has to do with how much paper material u have
Power of compounding
Maybe the math adds up the physically that can't happen and even if u didn't fold it, it won't work
You made my brain explode
People are talking about calculation, but how about an actual? Paper may torn apart without reaching a height of 52 Mm
keeping an atom on top of another
Just impossible. You can only fold paper 7times and 8times with hydraulics press
rather than doubling its rather increasing exponentially right like the general pattern or term is given by 0.1 x 2^n well wtever it still is amazing and counter intuitive before u deal with the equations that is
It is doubling!
@@Mahesh_Shenoy no not precise in a way yes just cause the number is 2 u can say its doubling but actually its increasing exponentially
What paper are you going to fold 42 times? Do it to prove it!
Interestingly, doing the same but halving the width of the paper by each fold, by the 42th fold you'll get about 6.35e-14 meters on the longer side of the paper. About 10000 less than the size of an atom lol
*edit : assuming you start with a standard 11x7.5 inch letter of course
Fun fct is 43rd fold gets u back to earth from the moon
Surface area still exists though.
Surface area has left the chat:
Common sense says though that you def. Cannot fold it enough to do that. At some point that 3D item which is paper cannot be folded again.
Go on - you at home - try to fold it this many times
Bro i stopped caring about the subject when i realised 1x to 11x and to 21 x and on is judt a thousand x, i judt learned a new math trick
If you fold it 200 times you would be in a parallel universe
my brain:how!?
To save humanity: We need to make it illegal to carry out more than 20 folds.
U cannot fold a paper more than 8 times.... That's a fact 😂
Everyone I explain this to, has no reaction, and literally doesn't even ask for any more details. I just know they write me off instantly and think I have got it all majorly wrong.
How come 11 folds is is not 1/4 the way to the moon
I dont understand such things ,what is the use of it ,we can't fold the paper after 6 time .
I folded a regular sheet of paper 20 times and it was easy I can do it more too
Well explained!
Once one of my classmates said he folded a paper 408 times
When I’m short on toilet paper, I think I can fold it by 42
How many times do you need to cut a new plank up before it gets the point.
Yeah and the paper has to Have enough paper to reach the moon isnt that like 300000 miles or something
If it is impossible then why it's discussing here
I dont know why im not beleaving this.
Its really fake..
I know its real but my mind saying its fake.😶
Bro I'm gonna do that like im gonna fold a f enormous paper 42 times
Why exactly to the moon? 🤔
Damnn epic video
Haha, thanks :)
Finally a cheap way to get to the moon 😂
how would a fold make the paper taller? doesn't it just make it smaller and thicker?
Thicker yes 🎉
Can we multiply the thickness by 2^41
it would not🙂Cause the paper will ran out of piece if you folded it more than 15times
Just do it like 2^42
Suppose it is a square paper, how much should be its area to make 42 folds
this is alright i even tried folding a paper after watching a ted video but my question is : is this really possible?? in real life because it gets too hard to fold a paper after some point of time