@@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
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!
wow first law of thermodynamics the most basic scientific law that regular Joe's spits out to tell others that they know science. Let me translate the math and science behind it to a Regular Joe language As you fold the paper in half (divide the area by half) you increase the thickness twice thus if you have an indestructible paper that can be folded indefinitely you can decrease its area indefinitely until it's the size of an atom at the same time that "missing area" becomes its thickness (the magical matter that reaches the moon) i.e stacking the atoms (thickness) of the paper, no magical matter is lost or created it only transformed (area to thickness).
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.
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)
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
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
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
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.
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.
That won't do it because by stacking 42 papers you will get Width of 1 paper * 42 But by folding a single paper, it multiplies exponentially as Width of 1 paper* 2^42
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
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
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
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.😅
@@The.Inkwell.Alchemistthat's in orientation towards moon thickening but the orientation on the earth (length and breadth) would be becoming thinner because we can't get matter out of nowhere and the overall matter in this case would be conserved
@@The.Inkwell.Alchemist there is no visual but I can make it more clear. Paper has finite number of atoms, by folding it, all atoms would start stacking over one another more and more exponentially, but due to this, the length and breadth of the paper will decrease in order for the thickness to increase and after 42 folds (no paper can be fold beyond 7 or 8) then the length and breadth would be just few atoms. And the thickness would be extremely high . Making it more clear, let the paper lie on x and z plane, then by folding we increase its thickness on y axis. In order for the matter to be conserved, the paper's x and z dimensions become smaller.
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
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
Can u add another paper and glue it every 7th fold ? I don’t understand why it’s possible online hypothetically ¬ in real life how can i apply it ? /can i apply it real time?
@@accountingmadesimple8691 no honestly not sure how to go about it if i need 7th folds for each a4 paper and i keep adding more papers it wouldn't be exactly a3 paper because a part of it would be glued and doubled and another part would just be one layer of paper the cumulative effect wouldn't be easily measured as getting a bigger single sheet of paper to work with that's just one part of the issue the other part is how to measure it exactly even if i where lucky enough to get my hand on a piece of paper that big I'm not a physicist nor a scientist but I'm very interested and curious
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.
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,
You right but wrong
Maths is correct but your conclusion is wrong
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
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
Fact: matter can neither be created nor destroyed 😂
U didn't get bro , here matter is neither created nor destroyed , it's just it will become thinner and thinner .....
It is about arrangement not creation
wow first law of thermodynamics the most basic scientific law that regular Joe's spits out to tell others that they know science.
Let me translate the math and science behind it to a Regular Joe language
As you fold the paper in half (divide the area by half) you increase the thickness twice thus if you have an indestructible paper that can be folded indefinitely you can decrease its area indefinitely until it's the size of an atom at the same time that "missing area" becomes its thickness (the magical matter that reaches the moon) i.e stacking the atoms (thickness) of the paper, no magical matter is lost or created it only transformed (area to thickness).
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
But by then you wouldn’t actually see the paper 💀
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.
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)
" *ferb, i know what were gonna do today!* "
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
Me thinking i can fold it 42 time:
After 103 folds you'll enter the Multiverse 💀
Relatable 🗿
@@IndianCrusader-k4v you've done this before?
@@clip.z ye
@@IndianCrusader-k4v Love from multiverse ✌️
Actually you would reach the observable universe
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
"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
Thats unbelievable...freaking crrraaazyyy🤯
I know right?
When a katana was folded 42 times it turned a samurai into an anime protagonist.
didnt believe it until i watched this videos thanks
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
Though the length will be very much. But the diameter of intersect of the paper will be microscopic
Power of conpounding
This guy makes me appreciate math
What's even crazier is that you can fit another earth sized planet between us and the moon
And that's where Physics and Mathematics had to be separated
People can't believe it because they don't realize how big the doubling effect would make the paper
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
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.
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
Well explained!
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
You made my brain explode
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
That won't do it because by stacking 42 papers you will get
Width of 1 paper * 42
But by folding a single paper, it multiplies exponentially as
Width of 1 paper* 2^42
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
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
So finally someone has found the question for The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything
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
its just a stupud trick question kinda thing. the paper wouldn't actually reach the moon.
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
My brain commited suicide
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.
This only works if you could continually fold it but some where after 8-10 folds paper stops folding and starts compressing
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
Now we just need to find a big enough sheet of paper
my brain just got Fudged 💀
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
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.😅
how would a fold make the paper taller? doesn't it just make it smaller and thicker?
Thicker yes 🎉
Only 46 folds remaining,.. I'll surely made a vlog from moon 🌙
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
@@The.Inkwell.Alchemistthat's in orientation towards moon thickening but the orientation on the earth (length and breadth) would be becoming thinner because we can't get matter out of nowhere and the overall matter in this case would be conserved
@@prismatic_genesis_85 I can’t picture what you’re saying, can you provide a link to a video or graphic that explains it?
@@The.Inkwell.Alchemist there is no visual but I can make it more clear.
Paper has finite number of atoms, by folding it, all atoms would start stacking over one another more and more exponentially, but due to this, the length and breadth of the paper will decrease in order for the thickness to increase and after 42 folds (no paper can be fold beyond 7 or 8) then the length and breadth would be just few atoms. And the thickness would be extremely high .
Making it more clear, let the paper lie on x and z plane, then by folding we increase its thickness on y axis. In order for the matter to be conserved, the paper's x and z dimensions become smaller.
Funfact : you cant fold a paper more than 8 times
Is it true that you can't fold a paper more than 7 times?
Practically, probably!
If the original paper is larger enough it could.
Damn I didn’t know there was actual science to prove this
Power of compounding
Can we multiply the thickness by 2^41
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 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
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
Surface area still exists though.
Pov: Telephone scammer is trying to explain why you should give him your credit card details.
100 KM from above the ground is not outer space.
Mama hair is fire
Only math geniuses can solve
Suppose it is a square paper, how much should be its area to make 42 folds
Ohh. Nasa should start looking forward and fold a paper and bring the moon sample very easily.. 😂😂
I don’t know if that has to do with how much paper material u have
What paper are you going to fold 42 times? Do it to prove it!
Ah yes 42, the answer to life, the universe, and everything.
keeping an atom on top of another
Maybe the math adds up the physically that can't happen and even if u didn't fold it, it won't work
What about a book that has 42 page
Damnn epic video
Haha, thanks :)
I Don't understand physics at all ,sometimes I feel who is so mad ,without knowing physics we use common sense in day to day life.
Meanwhile there are not enough atoms in a piece of paper to reach the moon in a 1 atom thin chain
Interesting. Care to show the math?
@@Mahesh_Shenoy math is my mortal enemy, i just feel confident that a piece of paper doesn't have that many atoms
@@bsabradybunch550 I did the math and there should be enough atoms in a standard sheet of paper to reach the moon, interesringly
@@paysonkeown2960 if thats true, i hate it
@@bsabradybunch550 if its thin enough then sure its possible
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
How many times do you need to cut a new plank up before it gets the point.
😮😮🙁.....now I'm not shocked to know that it is also not so far away from sun
*Now prove it by folding a paper 42 times*
0.2×2^41 mm
Can u add another paper and glue it every 7th fold ? I don’t understand why it’s possible online hypothetically ¬ in real life how can i apply it ? /can i apply it real time?
Very interesting perspective.
Can you calculate how many such papers you would need?
@@Mahesh_Shenoy I SURE CAN TRY I SUPPOSE
@@Alia-yc8fg did your test
@@accountingmadesimple8691 no honestly not sure how to go about it if i need 7th folds for each a4 paper and i keep adding more papers it wouldn't be exactly a3 paper because a part of it would be glued and doubled and another part would just be one layer of paper the cumulative effect wouldn't be easily measured as getting a bigger single sheet of paper to work with that's just one part of the issue the other part is how to measure it exactly even if i where lucky enough to get my hand on a piece of paper that big I'm not a physicist nor a scientist but I'm very interested and curious
my brain:how!?
You cannot make that many folds without breaking the paper into pieces
Why don’t we just keep 42 paper together and check 😂
Scientists: spending millions to go to space
Me: pathetic
😂
Spending millions to buy a piece of paper that large
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.
If you fold it 200 times you would be in a parallel universe
They patched the glitch💀💀💀💀
I have a dought why we need yo fold incase we tie a 42 paper it's also a same size I'm right.like a paper bundle with 42 paper
To save humanity: We need to make it illegal to carry out more than 20 folds.
Once one of my classmates said he folded a paper 408 times
I dont understand such things ,what is the use of it ,we can't fold the paper after 6 time .
Fun fct is 43rd fold gets u back to earth from the moon
Surface area has left the chat:
Bro I'm gonna do that like im gonna fold a f enormous paper 42 times
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
Amazing
Thanks :)
I folded a regular sheet of paper 20 times and it was easy I can do it more too
Very true
I was thinking there where levels you need to do in the top of the universe its weird
U cannot fold a paper more than 8 times.... That's a fact 😂
Why exactly to the moon? 🤔