Exponential growth: How folding paper can get you to the Moon

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@odinangie1377
@odinangie1377 6 жыл бұрын
Nasa : To the moon? That`ll cost 25 billion dollars. Adrian Paenza: No just fold paper 45x.
@TheElvisnator
@TheElvisnator 6 жыл бұрын
Nasa: But you can't fold paper more than 7 times. Adrian Paenza: Hold my Beer
@AngelJin5799
@AngelJin5799 6 жыл бұрын
Lol just folding the paper 45 times will cost 25 billion dollars
@KarlismiSN
@KarlismiSN 6 жыл бұрын
Going to the moon costs 750 million dollars
@surabhibhatnagar4976
@surabhibhatnagar4976 6 жыл бұрын
Same for the return trip😂
@wilku848
@wilku848 6 жыл бұрын
@@TheElvisnator we can 8 times
@syahhenderson
@syahhenderson 4 жыл бұрын
Teacher: how long is the distance between Earth and Moon..? Me: 45 folds..
@MT-od6by
@MT-od6by 4 жыл бұрын
lol
@venomfurious5018
@venomfurious5018 4 жыл бұрын
Lol
@phase0400
@phase0400 4 жыл бұрын
LoL
@rajni2718
@rajni2718 4 жыл бұрын
loL
@nucleargushtaba8098
@nucleargushtaba8098 4 жыл бұрын
Lol
@jantulinja8917
@jantulinja8917 8 жыл бұрын
i knew origami would get me somewhere one day
@hectorh112
@hectorh112 8 жыл бұрын
lulz
@dantepalero4554
@dantepalero4554 8 жыл бұрын
i know right
@squigglylines420
@squigglylines420 8 жыл бұрын
but if u keep folding it even if it reaches the moon wont it be really thin?...like it will be tall and thin
@franciscog4071
@franciscog4071 8 жыл бұрын
No, with zillyhoo
@llvllisun15
@llvllisun15 8 жыл бұрын
Yeah...
@kumarrishabh7042
@kumarrishabh7042 Жыл бұрын
I love how his animation kept the area constant while increasing height only
@jackieboy978
@jackieboy978 Жыл бұрын
😂
@SeanK1684
@SeanK1684 Жыл бұрын
Lol same here
@lxncexzs
@lxncexzs Жыл бұрын
well the reason u cant fold paper more than 7 times is bcs its get too small so thats probably why
@Nicolas78910
@Nicolas78910 Ай бұрын
0:59
@Isvoor
@Isvoor 7 жыл бұрын
I like it how they added instructions on how to get back. We wouldn't want anyone getting stuck on the moon, would we?
@elti8614
@elti8614 7 жыл бұрын
Isvoor 😂😂😂😂😂😅
@HusseinAli-ue1rl
@HusseinAli-ue1rl 7 жыл бұрын
Isvoor 😅😅 How did you noticed this !!
@-fewkey-2362
@-fewkey-2362 6 жыл бұрын
Isvoor yea 🙌 and how do we fold that much paper it impossible tell the further
@randomcannon3260
@randomcannon3260 6 жыл бұрын
Let someone get lost though. 😈
@jaynishdesai7057
@jaynishdesai7057 6 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣
@user-zr7fi3hn2i
@user-zr7fi3hn2i 4 жыл бұрын
*Hey, Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today!*
@BerriesSan
@BerriesSan 4 жыл бұрын
UNDERRATED COMMENT
@zasproductions9258
@zasproductions9258 4 жыл бұрын
*we’re going to fold paper that goes all the way to the moon*
@therealbeanbot
@therealbeanbot 4 жыл бұрын
@@zasproductions9258 That was implied Also, hello fellow Productions
@zasproductions9258
@zasproductions9258 4 жыл бұрын
Candace: *”Mom! Phineas & Ferb are going to the moon without their helmets on”*
@shahbazalam4268
@shahbazalam4268 4 жыл бұрын
LEGENDARY COMMENT
@matzz1413
@matzz1413 6 жыл бұрын
I got 56 Bibles 72 dictionarys 45 Harry Potter books See y'all later I'm going to Mars!
@u13613to
@u13613to 6 жыл бұрын
😂😂
@endmepls1723
@endmepls1723 6 жыл бұрын
The real question is why do you have 56 Bibles
@jodyjadetv8620
@jodyjadetv8620 6 жыл бұрын
If each Bible, dictionary, and Harry Potter books are 1000 pages, and you folded them all 45 times, it will be 25.42 million light years wide
@tanishadaharwal9386
@tanishadaharwal9386 6 жыл бұрын
Ted-ed watchers are damn funny and super smart when it comes to commenting 😂😂
@samanyuokade965
@samanyuokade965 6 жыл бұрын
You’ve got 72 dictionaries and yet u call them dictionarys
@Bima-x-q4c
@Bima-x-q4c 4 жыл бұрын
If I write "I love you" in a paper and fold it 45 times, twice, would it be like saying "I love you to the moon and back?" 👁️👄👁️
@select9th845
@select9th845 4 жыл бұрын
nope 46 for it to have the "and back"
@Bima-x-q4c
@Bima-x-q4c 4 жыл бұрын
@@select9th845 Ahh you're right.
@eesaisiot
@eesaisiot 3 жыл бұрын
*Big brain over here*
@redetz158
@redetz158 3 жыл бұрын
*pro gamer move right there*
@martinplayer23
@martinplayer23 3 жыл бұрын
@@select9th845 I wanted to write that
@sarahskelecat
@sarahskelecat 6 жыл бұрын
"Mom" "Yes" "Get the Bible" "Why" *"WE'RE GOING TO HEAVEN"* *_"WHAT"_*
@kunalbhardwaj9060
@kunalbhardwaj9060 4 жыл бұрын
Underrated
@elbryan4751
@elbryan4751 4 жыл бұрын
Jajajaja
@soba1180
@soba1180 4 жыл бұрын
This.
@matthewredmond2773
@matthewredmond2773 4 жыл бұрын
Hahahahah
@slolilols
@slolilols 4 жыл бұрын
*_Haven't seen a genuinely good comment in a while, you made my day_* 😂
@anyarr
@anyarr 8 жыл бұрын
I took a sheet of computer paper and stared at it for a while before going like, "Nope, this can NOT be as tall as the Empire State Building." Then I folded it 40 times The purpose of this comment is that I need help. If you see this comment, please tell NASA that I'm stuck on one of their satellites.
@anyarr
@anyarr 8 жыл бұрын
***** Come on, please, I'm running out of oxygen.
@anyarr
@anyarr 8 жыл бұрын
***** Thanks!
@anyarr
@anyarr 8 жыл бұрын
***** Don't worry, I'll try not to die. No promises though.
@sylomore7343
@sylomore7343 8 жыл бұрын
Dead yet? :^(
@anyarr
@anyarr 8 жыл бұрын
JamaicanPerson Very soon I will be, because people like you aren't telling NASA that I need help. >:/
@peanut5350
@peanut5350 7 жыл бұрын
"Mom, get the bible we're going to the moon!"
@thatoneguy9582
@thatoneguy9582 7 жыл бұрын
Nohlan Fisherman Screw that, we're to Uranus
@galaxyofneon._.5352
@galaxyofneon._.5352 7 жыл бұрын
That One Guy what about Pluto or Planet X?
@thatoneguy9582
@thatoneguy9582 7 жыл бұрын
GalaxyOfNeon ._. Probably doesn't go that far 60 times however
@pinco_pallo
@pinco_pallo 7 жыл бұрын
Well... I would never use the Bible to do that.
@Alexgamer-qg7go
@Alexgamer-qg7go 7 жыл бұрын
GalaxyOfNeon ._. What about son?
@getpriyanka
@getpriyanka 3 жыл бұрын
*Darn, Elon should see this. He would probably close down spacex and open a book store*
@Netpilation
@Netpilation 3 жыл бұрын
Not so funny
@Fat_Catt
@Fat_Catt 3 жыл бұрын
So you’re saying Jeff bozos was right to be in the book business al along
@Ronald1324
@Ronald1324 2 жыл бұрын
Brilliant person, you’re. Quite the thinker.
@SeanK1684
@SeanK1684 Жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣
@EggsBenedicts
@EggsBenedicts 6 жыл бұрын
Damn that paper *THICC*
@colettehalper1682
@colettehalper1682 6 жыл бұрын
Rishabh Vailaya and Hellbanisher rockz😂
@raiden8523
@raiden8523 6 жыл бұрын
Your name is a DIRECT refrence to fnaf sister location.
@5vhr369
@5vhr369 6 жыл бұрын
A girl I saw yesterday was *T. H. I. C. E. R*
@rayel4142
@rayel4142 6 жыл бұрын
@Justin Y. lol
@Zeus-cy2cz
@Zeus-cy2cz 6 жыл бұрын
@Justin Y. when and what time u disappear from me
@what7368
@what7368 8 жыл бұрын
0 folds. I can't bring myself to ruin such fine paper.
@what7368
@what7368 8 жыл бұрын
We're doing it, man. We're making this happen.
@benjaminsambol
@benjaminsambol 8 жыл бұрын
CursedPugs #paperlivesmatter
@porlQ
@porlQ 8 жыл бұрын
CursedPugs #paperlivesmatter
@gtavxelidze
@gtavxelidze 8 жыл бұрын
so, you want to say that you are stupid?
@r.p.cubers4900
@r.p.cubers4900 8 жыл бұрын
CursedPugs idiot
@thealexguy1486
@thealexguy1486 6 жыл бұрын
So let's say we take an average newspaper, 4800cm^2. When this is folded in half the area halves and becomes 2400cm^2. As you continue to fold the paper in half, the area keeps shrinking resulting in 45 folds making a piece of paper of size 0.0000000001cm^2, which is 140 times smaller than a carbon atom (which is inside a molecule of paper), therefore if folding paper more than 7 times was possible, 45 times would result in an atom being split meaning you couldn't get it to the moon.
@gabduugabduu2736
@gabduugabduu2736 6 жыл бұрын
Right
@fortniteloser5111
@fortniteloser5111 6 жыл бұрын
thealexguy1 RElax he’s just saying if you had the world’s biggest piece of bible paper you *could* get to the moon.
@alsatan1032
@alsatan1032 6 жыл бұрын
But what if you cut the paper in half and put the first half on the other? Also you can take a bigger paper... I mean if you take a paper with an area equal to the surface of the earth, what Will happen?
@jael640
@jael640 6 жыл бұрын
@@alsatan1032 that's an excellent question - the one about a paper being equal to the surface of the earth - i would love to hear an answer as well
@karthikrox6310
@karthikrox6310 6 жыл бұрын
@@alsatan1032 won't help much, since by exponential growth ( and shrinkage) only one more fold can ruin all the extra size you took initially.
@rohitravuri5267
@rohitravuri5267 3 жыл бұрын
3:34 Thanks dude I thought I would be stuck after reaching Moon
@srilaxmiudupa8684
@srilaxmiudupa8684 2 жыл бұрын
😂🤣
@cristianus1845
@cristianus1845 6 жыл бұрын
1:04 "...what would you imagine the thickness of the paper would be then?" Me: "乇乂ㄒ尺卂 ㄒ卄丨匚匚"
@JohnXina452
@JohnXina452 5 жыл бұрын
Hehe
@xCrysT4L1
@xCrysT4L1 4 жыл бұрын
XD
@Trisin-m3i
@Trisin-m3i 4 жыл бұрын
*_EXTRA THICC_*
@collinchan6000
@collinchan6000 4 жыл бұрын
_EXTRA_ *THICC*
@goodbyemychannel
@goodbyemychannel 4 жыл бұрын
I thought u wrote chinese there lol
@mamamamamamamamia
@mamamamamamamamia 5 жыл бұрын
By folding it 45 times, we get to the moon, and by doubling it.... *me thinking* mars? We get back to earth *brain.exe has stopped working*
@kubatutak9452
@kubatutak9452 5 жыл бұрын
Mars is actually 10~50x further from earth than moon at best moments (when distance between earth and mars is smallest) so u should fold it 3~6 times more
@LaxminarayanSG
@LaxminarayanSG 5 жыл бұрын
Even further than pluto
@jamsty8225
@jamsty8225 5 жыл бұрын
If you fold it 50 times it should reach the sun
@louietapao
@louietapao 5 жыл бұрын
[GD] Kwee67 it wouldn't, it'll burn
@wow5890
@wow5890 5 жыл бұрын
Kuba Tutak if you fold a paper 103 times it will be larger than the observable universe, sooooo
@minhhanhao8104
@minhhanhao8104 6 жыл бұрын
Somebody: "Love you to the moon and back" Me: *YoU mEaN...*
@Orion98.89
@Orion98.89 5 жыл бұрын
Minh Hạnh Đào hahahahh
@MichaelAutism
@MichaelAutism 4 жыл бұрын
thào?
@crazybrickstudios7482
@crazybrickstudios7482 4 жыл бұрын
Breeeehhhhhhhh Never mind
@tonymp
@tonymp 4 жыл бұрын
Love you 46 paper folds!
@wumpoooo
@wumpoooo 4 жыл бұрын
*Love... haven't heard that name in years*
@AlbertTheGamer-gk7sn
@AlbertTheGamer-gk7sn Жыл бұрын
By the way, here is something called dimension compression. You start with a rectangle with dimensions 1x2. It has an area of 2 square units. However, if we were to move the line on top of the rectangle to the midpoint, the bottom line will double in length, assuming the area of the rectangle remains constant. Then, it will have dimensions of 0.5x4. If we keep dragging the top line as the space becomes infinitesimally small as the 2 lines converge on top of each other, we will get a line that extends infinitely; a dimension. We can do the same thing with a 3D cube, where we will compress the top square to the bottom one which increases it to extrude it into a flat 2D plane. Therefore, we can theorize we are living in a 4D tesseract where the top cube is compressing against the bottom cube, causing the universe to expand at negative velocities. When the top cube lies on top of the bottom cube, the Big Rip will happen as the bottom cube gets an infinite 3D volume. Therefore, if you want to extrude something into the 4th dimension, you must make them infinitely large in 3 dimensions, and then pull the top cube out of the bottom cube, which will shrink the tesseract back to finite dimensions. Therefore, if we divide by 0, we can create an infinitely large Rubik's cube and pull the cubes away to create the first 3x3x3x3 Rubik's tesseract.
@Dawe0110
@Dawe0110 Жыл бұрын
Best comment I’ve read in a looong time
@YotamBarakJAB271104
@YotamBarakJAB271104 4 жыл бұрын
"Someone is getting to the top of the empire state building with a paper" Wind: "I'm about to end this man's whole career. "
@aaronfernandes3739
@aaronfernandes3739 3 жыл бұрын
😹😹
@SeanB_Official
@SeanB_Official 3 жыл бұрын
LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@anshumanagrawal346
@anshumanagrawal346 3 жыл бұрын
To be able to fold it that many times the paper would have to be so long that its weight is also a lot, so it wouldn't fall from wind
@AjinkyaNaikksp
@AjinkyaNaikksp 8 жыл бұрын
And so I grabbed a piece of paper and started folding it and after 5 folds the paper was torn. Moral :- Never take Science so lightly even if it seems easy.
@0cheeseburga
@0cheeseburga 8 жыл бұрын
indeed, leave folding paper to the aerospace engineers!
@AjinkyaNaikksp
@AjinkyaNaikksp 8 жыл бұрын
0cheeseburga yes :D
@Xthis1s4youX
@Xthis1s4youX 8 жыл бұрын
you don't really need to fold the paper, just cut it in half everytime and put one half on top of the other, that way you won't have that pesky problem of it being hard to fold
@AjinkyaNaikksp
@AjinkyaNaikksp 8 жыл бұрын
Sevanape This1s4you hmm :)
@AjinkyaNaikksp
@AjinkyaNaikksp 8 жыл бұрын
NullAndIce :D
@shauryasharma3084
@shauryasharma3084 7 жыл бұрын
Finally found a way to reach the moon back in just 50 cents, Now that's called saving
@piemack9389
@piemack9389 7 жыл бұрын
Shaurya Sharma good luck climbing that you might need to also make a homemade spacesuit
@justinmarkrivera5092
@justinmarkrivera5092 7 жыл бұрын
Shaurya Sharma well, if you can fold a paper that thick then maybe since getting up to 10 folds is barely doable. Mythbusters even got up to 11 and the used a large wide paper and used a steam roller just to flatten it. Also you have to make it stand up and it having a height of over 6 miles is hard if not impossible unless it had a lot of support.
@wailimchan376
@wailimchan376 6 жыл бұрын
by the time u get to around 8 folds, the height of the paper will prevent you from making another fold.
@1SSJA
@1SSJA 6 жыл бұрын
Why not fold dirt
@tabzoo7819
@tabzoo7819 6 жыл бұрын
Shaurya Sharma yea instead of spending 3.4 billion on a spaceship that ur only using once
@JustWasted3HoursHere
@JustWasted3HoursHere 3 жыл бұрын
I remember reading somewhere years ago - and it seemed as incredible as this one - that if you could fold a piece of paper 100 times it would actually be taller than the KNOWN UNIVERSE is wide. That is, it would be about 16.7 *BILLION* _lightyears_ tall. Doesn't seem feasible until you start actually doing the math. Another one similar to this is the one where you hire someone to work for you for 30 days, but you're going to pay them every day double what you gave them the day before, but you will start with only 1 penny. So, on day two you will give them 2 pennies (so now they have 3 pennies, etc). How much would they have at the end of the 30 days? Almost 11 million dollars!
@dratelectasis
@dratelectasis Жыл бұрын
103 times i think was the exact number
@RAXIIIIIIII
@RAXIIIIIIII Жыл бұрын
The atoms wouldnt be enough to reach thay long. And..... The universe is expanding and...... we dont know how big The universe is so......its an impossible theory
@JustWasted3HoursHere
@JustWasted3HoursHere Жыл бұрын
@@RAXIIIIIIII Well of course the paper itself would be impossible because it would require more atoms than there are in the universe to construct it, but as an example of geometric progression it checks out.
@azrisyarifuddin2333
@azrisyarifuddin2333 6 жыл бұрын
1919: soon in the future we will have flying cars. 2019: nope but have papers though.
@ramuk1933
@ramuk1933 5 жыл бұрын
8995446: I shouldn't be here
@valenciocruz368
@valenciocruz368 5 жыл бұрын
There were papers at that time....
@RexVonTerror
@RexVonTerror 5 жыл бұрын
Why do you copy other people's comments?... You literally just changed the last part
@CrabmanStuff
@CrabmanStuff 5 жыл бұрын
There Are Flying Cars In 2019 Btw This Video Was Posted In 2012
@OHGBOMB
@OHGBOMB 4 жыл бұрын
Cars was not invented yet !!
@cheeseburgermonkey7104
@cheeseburgermonkey7104 5 жыл бұрын
NASA: ...Nope, we cant afford a rocket to space. Me: *folds paper 45 times* NASA: *ITS A MOON LADDER*
@justfish7086
@justfish7086 2 жыл бұрын
wow very funny 😒
@SuburbanAndAgony
@SuburbanAndAgony 2 жыл бұрын
@@justfish7086 “😒”
@myhoang2194
@myhoang2194 Жыл бұрын
you cant even see the ladder anyways, it is as thin as an carbon atom
@notydino
@notydino 9 жыл бұрын
When you fold a 1meter length paper 40 times, the length/width would be reduced to 9e-13m. I believe this is smaller then the size of an atom. The paper tower would be so thin it couldn't hold together at the sub atomic level. So even as a hypothetical discussion, the concept doesn't hold water very well.
@JupitersDancer
@JupitersDancer 9 жыл бұрын
You forgot to take in account that when you fold 40 times, you actually only fold 20 times the width and 20 times the height. For example if a paper of one squared meter is folded once, either the width or the height is still 1m long. So when folded 40 times, the sides are still about 0.9 microns long...
@notydino
@notydino 9 жыл бұрын
Pablo M Ah I see. Very good correction sir.
@CODMReaper
@CODMReaper 9 жыл бұрын
NERDSSSSSSSSS
@vision716
@vision716 9 жыл бұрын
+monckey100 True
@spectrum6474
@spectrum6474 9 жыл бұрын
+Balee Tong best, most accurate comeback ever
@buddy1550
@buddy1550 4 жыл бұрын
These are the thoughts I get when I am bored and couldn't sleep at night
@TrueUmbreon1
@TrueUmbreon1 4 жыл бұрын
Dad: what are you doing? Kid: my science project
@eoj-so2ht
@eoj-so2ht 3 жыл бұрын
Ok
@thomasmaltais8503
@thomasmaltais8503 3 жыл бұрын
Ok
@kartikpoojari22
@kartikpoojari22 2 жыл бұрын
Ok
@shabir301
@shabir301 6 жыл бұрын
The area of paper is also exponentially decreacing...so assume that initial area is 1m^2 that is length is 1m and breath is 1m after folding 49 times ...(by doing mathematical calculation)...the length and breath become 42(nano meter)....so, it becomes invisible to human eyes...thickness is less then 3000 time to human hair...
@ravinduwijayarathna6238
@ravinduwijayarathna6238 6 жыл бұрын
mdsabir shaik that's right .. area is inversely proportional to it's length.. this is exactly what I've been trying to say..
@Coolet27
@Coolet27 6 жыл бұрын
I realized that lol
@Isa-zc6bj
@Isa-zc6bj 6 жыл бұрын
at last someone gets it
@emmetthawthorne1961
@emmetthawthorne1961 6 жыл бұрын
Guess we just need 3 million news papers
@fortniteloser5111
@fortniteloser5111 6 жыл бұрын
mdsabir shaik :( IF YOU HAD A HUUUUUUUGE PAPER YOU COULD FOLD IT 45 TIMES IN WITHIN (mathematics calculation) 27 hours.
@hidebehind3565
@hidebehind3565 7 жыл бұрын
Well... Its length will be enough to go to the Moon (in 45 folds). But how am I going to climb it? I need a solution NOW. I have to go to the Moon this weekend for my school project.
@thezekenator7584
@thezekenator7584 7 жыл бұрын
Hide Behind you dont
@quack2757
@quack2757 6 жыл бұрын
Just use a paper the size of Asia!
@fredjones2047
@fredjones2047 6 жыл бұрын
Well a bible has a lot of pages, make some stairs!
@user-nu3sd7zb2j
@user-nu3sd7zb2j 6 жыл бұрын
Hide Behind Start with folding it 7 times , then talk lol
@Ashegao
@Ashegao 6 жыл бұрын
Sophia lol
@tranhuy6038
@tranhuy6038 4 жыл бұрын
"What would you imagine the thickness of the paper would be then?" me: idk probably like 10 cm also me after I've seen the 25th fold: BOI
@lincolnloud9560
@lincolnloud9560 3 жыл бұрын
2 to the 1 = 2 2 to the 2 = 4 2 to the 3 =8 2 to the 4 = 16
@myhoang2194
@myhoang2194 Жыл бұрын
the answer if u fold the paper 45 times is, well around 1 carbon atom
@tiqosc1809
@tiqosc1809 8 жыл бұрын
120 folds and u go to edge of the universe
@benjaminsambol
@benjaminsambol 8 жыл бұрын
johnson SC go back to minecraft, kid.
@seanbush5313
@seanbush5313 8 жыл бұрын
lol what??
@tiqosc1809
@tiqosc1809 8 жыл бұрын
wtf?
@edofluit7026
@edofluit7026 8 жыл бұрын
you know he said the edge of the universe not of space.
@jamesyboy4626
@jamesyboy4626 8 жыл бұрын
why would it take infinity folds to get to the edge of the universe? 103 folds and the the piece of paper would be as thick as the universe.
@TheVampire120
@TheVampire120 7 жыл бұрын
fun fact: 25 folds and its height would be 0.25 miles it's width would be 0.0000002 ft this is called exponential decay 45 folds and it's width would be 0.000 000 000 000 28 width (diameter) of an atom's nucleuss 1x10^12 which is close to width of 45 folds 45 folds and we get ladders to the moon that are 3 nucleuses wide hold my beer
@jlknightetherion5549
@jlknightetherion5549 7 жыл бұрын
Grunt We need paper 45 light-years in size
@nobody6317
@nobody6317 7 жыл бұрын
Not nucleuses It's nuclei
@aki_ingason3376
@aki_ingason3376 6 жыл бұрын
Nerd
@goldencookie5456
@goldencookie5456 6 жыл бұрын
Grunt I did this in my 8th grade speech. If you fold a normal piece of paper 103 times, it’ll be thicker than the whole observable universe. And for the width, I would probably be smaller than a plank which is the smallest thing in the entire universe.
@nobody6317
@nobody6317 6 жыл бұрын
Áki Ingason Who me?
@chriswashingtonbeats
@chriswashingtonbeats 7 жыл бұрын
Have you ever tried to fold a piece of paper more than 8 times. It's impossible.
@trevorphillips6884
@trevorphillips6884 6 жыл бұрын
Rhino Alestorm mythbusters broke that myth got 11 folds into a huge piece of paper
@chriswashingtonbeats
@chriswashingtonbeats 6 жыл бұрын
Trevor Phillips oh really? Proved me wrong.
@lanewhaley3605
@lanewhaley3605 6 жыл бұрын
Rhino Alestorm kzbin.info/www/bejne/oYOkdnWYpNmof6c
@harsha9919
@harsha9919 6 жыл бұрын
The highest number of folds is 13 by the way
@randomuruk7230
@randomuruk7230 6 жыл бұрын
There is no limit to how many folds you can do as long as you can apply the pressure needed
@peterwoolfrey5491
@peterwoolfrey5491 4 жыл бұрын
I'd like to see the same animation done with the size of the sheet of paper, assuming when you get to the moon, you have a stack that measures 8-1/2" x 11" x 250,000,000 miles. How big of a sheet do you need to start with?
@JacobMcCaslin
@JacobMcCaslin 3 жыл бұрын
Define how big you want it to be at the end and multiply it by 2^45
@AlexRaxach
@AlexRaxach 9 жыл бұрын
Let's face it, we all know folding paper won't get us to the moon.
@thatonechaoschildandaceatt8358
@thatonechaoschildandaceatt8358 9 жыл бұрын
+Alex Raxach It would reach the distance to earth from the moon, but it's paper. Just imagine a bunch of people trying to climb a piece of paper. It would fall over, if the wind didn't blow it over.
@danielrenner5632
@danielrenner5632 9 жыл бұрын
+I will get a username when I stop being lazy. That mental image cracked me up. Thank you.
@nacho74
@nacho74 9 жыл бұрын
+Alex Raxach We don't need to go to the moon, because we have earth. If we were on the moon, we would desire to reach to the earth because earth has oxygen, a lot of water/H2O,iron, magnesium, sulfur, nickel, calcium which make up the bulk composition and more elements, an Ozon layer, the ideal amount of gravity for us to be developed the way we are, a strong magnetic field to protect us from solar eruptions, is in the habitable zone and full of life in every corner. The moon has also many of those elements but has e.g. a much thinner atmosphere, much less water in form of ice and is inhabitable without astronautic devices. So, what is better for us, the moon or our earth? We need to face it that paper doesn't work the way it is imagined with folding.
@AlexRaxach
@AlexRaxach 9 жыл бұрын
+nadjim73 Dude, there's something seriously wrong with you :)
@nacho74
@nacho74 9 жыл бұрын
Alex Raxach Well, i may appear that way to some, but for my own, i am alright. Btw, it doesn't have to be bad that something is wrong with me in an unlikely right society, don't it. Speaking about something wrong simply indicates that there is something right on the other side which is expected to be normal.
@farhanarshad6064
@farhanarshad6064 6 жыл бұрын
What am I suppose to do with this information
@gracegray3460
@gracegray3460 6 жыл бұрын
lol the troll 91 go to the moon...
@spiritedrenee9895
@spiritedrenee9895 6 жыл бұрын
Idk but I watched the full video anyway
@pogchamp5127
@pogchamp5127 6 жыл бұрын
lol the troll 91 Get ur *ss to the moon...
@shelbyanderson5546
@shelbyanderson5546 6 жыл бұрын
*supposed, and idk it's pretty pointless
@Coolet27
@Coolet27 6 жыл бұрын
it's kind of intresting
@maxxwelthrix432
@maxxwelthrix432 8 жыл бұрын
What they forgot is that every time you fold a piece of paper in half it gets smaller while it gets thicker, the surface area of the paper doesn't change no matter how many times you fold it
@dragonmanover9000
@dragonmanover9000 3 жыл бұрын
To continue with this mathematical phenomenon, let's come up with an equation for this paper-folding technique. If we think of this as x = t * 2^n, with x being the length of the folded paper, t being the original thickness, and n being the number of times we fold the paper, we can find how large n would be at a certain thickness if we know how thick the paper originally was. According to the video, the thickness of this magical paper is 0.001 cm, or 0.00001 m, or 10^-5 m, so we can use this starting thickness again for this example. Finally, let's come up with a distance we can reach. Since they already used the distance between the earth and moon as an example, let's come up with something bigger, like the distance to the sun. That distance is 150 million km or 1.5 * 10^11 meters. Plugging it in, we get 1.5 * 10^11 = 10^-5 * 2^n, which must mean that 2^n is 1.5 * 10^16. We can find n by transforming the exponent into a log, and so we get the log function log2(1.5 * 10^16), which is equal to 53.736. Since we can't fold the fraction of a distance, we can round it up to get 54 folds. Let's go even further: Distance to Proxima Centauri (4 * 10^16 meters) = 71.760 (72) folds Length of Milky Way Galaxy (1.75 * 10^21 meters) = 87.177 (87) folds Diameter of Observable Universe (8.8 * 10^26 meters) = 106.117 (106) folds
@worthlessguy7477
@worthlessguy7477 7 жыл бұрын
guys I went to mars by folding paper. but I didn't count how many folds.
@tester1991
@tester1991 7 жыл бұрын
sai kk
@aeg9322
@aeg9322 7 жыл бұрын
sai probably 193 folds
@supergamer4015
@supergamer4015 7 жыл бұрын
50 folds or plus or minus is enough
@saucegod7260
@saucegod7260 6 жыл бұрын
sai I traveled the whole universe it 103
@saucegod7260
@saucegod7260 6 жыл бұрын
Saeed AlRomaithi it takes 103 to travel the whole universe
@chefmike4414
@chefmike4414 5 жыл бұрын
I fold toilet paper all the time like that lol. Guess where it goes, that's right Uranus.
@BatmanBeyondBelief
@BatmanBeyondBelief 3 жыл бұрын
Underrated comment
@SHaKoB0_0
@SHaKoB0_0 3 жыл бұрын
Lmaooo
@khushbu2u
@khushbu2u 3 жыл бұрын
Lmaoooo
@sudipto4447
@sudipto4447 3 жыл бұрын
lol that was a good pun this need more likes
@verlax8956
@verlax8956 3 жыл бұрын
pretty good
@nolanwtf
@nolanwtf 5 жыл бұрын
Me: “Mom I learned something new today! Mom: What is it? Me: I can get to the moon Mom: Its not that easy how are you going to do that? Me: *Holds bible*
@realprisec
@realprisec 4 жыл бұрын
Bruh if this was real you could travel so much distance with a bible
@pshekchik
@pshekchik 4 жыл бұрын
Holds 56 bibles xD
@entertainmenttelevision2486
@entertainmenttelevision2486 3 жыл бұрын
@@pshekchik what about a single Mahabharata book with around 13,000 pages?
@Dackered
@Dackered 3 жыл бұрын
LMAO
@BereniceSalas420
@BereniceSalas420 3 жыл бұрын
*with the help of Jesus*
@rxhx
@rxhx 2 жыл бұрын
Maybe if the paper was a million miles wide, we could get a visible folded bridge to the moon out of it.
@winters7505
@winters7505 7 жыл бұрын
How much folds would it take to get to her heart? :'(
@thezekenator7584
@thezekenator7584 7 жыл бұрын
1 for me since I’m lonely ;-;
@danannytp8509
@danannytp8509 7 жыл бұрын
infity
@blssmhh7241
@blssmhh7241 7 жыл бұрын
Too many.
@aeg9322
@aeg9322 7 жыл бұрын
Xıҳ Ҡıngdơm 0
@fifofuko1864
@fifofuko1864 7 жыл бұрын
Oh maan :(((
@OwnageCubed
@OwnageCubed 8 жыл бұрын
Yeah you can go infinitely high, but its length and witdh DECREASE exponentially with each fold. Interesting video though.
@orangebird6968
@orangebird6968 8 жыл бұрын
He never mentioned the size of the paper.
@danfox7920
@danfox7920 8 жыл бұрын
OrangeBird he did, he says at the start that's it's the size of a page out of a newspaper
@orangebird6968
@orangebird6968 8 жыл бұрын
Point is, we don't know how big exactly that newspaper is. Don't tell me that the hands are a reference point. Why? They're just put there to make things understandable.
@rygnyr3083
@rygnyr3083 7 жыл бұрын
OwnageCubed Sorry
@coluurs5660
@coluurs5660 7 жыл бұрын
OwnageCubed yeah he knows, he just made it like that so it's not confusing
@jeremyshaferorigami
@jeremyshaferorigami 7 жыл бұрын
It would also have to be EXTREMELY stretchy paper because the top layer on the moon would be "next" to the bottom layer on the earth and it would be curving around all of the other layers, unless you want to assume the paper has zero thickness in which case it wouldn't get off the ground.
@ean627
@ean627 4 жыл бұрын
i first thought this was fake, but now that im learning about exponential growth and decay in khan academy, i think it is posible if you have the right sized paper
@Random-hf4xs
@Random-hf4xs 4 жыл бұрын
right size paper = galaxy size. even size of Sun isnt enough.
@palashpandey2389
@palashpandey2389 8 жыл бұрын
all shitheads trying to say "its physically impossible " or this "video is misleading",this is trying to teach the concept of exponential growth , its an analogy which is perfect to me.peace.
@michaelgriggs7839
@michaelgriggs7839 7 жыл бұрын
Palash Pandey finally someone who actually uses their brain
@sabilityone
@sabilityone 7 жыл бұрын
Go back to kindergarden
@qepidu-lyibh9799
@qepidu-lyibh9799 7 жыл бұрын
Look at your profile picture, now look at your name.
@tajrianbhasha5408
@tajrianbhasha5408 5 жыл бұрын
me: *mouth open,,,hands on my forehead,,,AMAZED* Dad: what are you watching? me: I have no idea...
@pritishsai
@pritishsai 8 жыл бұрын
If you start the month with $1 and double it every day, you'd be a billionaire by the end of that month.
@BohdanMcClane
@BohdanMcClane 8 жыл бұрын
+Pritish Sai If your father give you a small loan of a million dollars you will be a Trump.
@gagealdrich6128
@gagealdrich6128 8 жыл бұрын
+Bohdan “oovlq” McClane lmao
@thydimov9909
@thydimov9909 8 жыл бұрын
21 days = 3 weeks
@kiyandowning5805
@kiyandowning5805 8 жыл бұрын
Wow I just checked and that's actually true
@Tokijacobsen
@Tokijacobsen 8 жыл бұрын
can you explain it?
@duke9081
@duke9081 3 жыл бұрын
This is very theoretical! It’s scientifically impossible, you would also need to start with a huge paper, it has to be super flexible, more flexible than silk
@RAXIIIIIIII
@RAXIIIIIIII Жыл бұрын
And the moon is moving so it would actually be longer distance to travel
@akkiaddizone6889
@akkiaddizone6889 Жыл бұрын
Obviously, It is just theoretical. What? You think people would actually do this
@Saaraayee
@Saaraayee 6 жыл бұрын
The illustrations is deceptive! The area of the surface of the paper gets smaller and smaller after each fold! So basically it gets as tiny as an atom after being folded for so many times. Which makes it a fun fact but literally impractical and undoable.
@alexshadel3617
@alexshadel3617 5 жыл бұрын
good job einstein, u want an award?
@AB-gt6iv
@AB-gt6iv 4 жыл бұрын
@@alexshadel3617 Y so rude?
@OHGBOMB
@OHGBOMB 4 жыл бұрын
Exactly what i was thinking about !
@Rohit-ez7pf
@Rohit-ez7pf 4 жыл бұрын
@Something Studios it won't matter much because paper is shrinking exponentially..
@Re5_2karman
@Re5_2karman 4 жыл бұрын
you guys are looking it the other way to figure what causes the impossibility. It's not about how hard to fold the paper, heck just forget folding and stack the paper instead, though it wouldn't still work since the bottom part of the stack can't handle the immense pressure that would already explode before you reach the moon Not to mention other factors like budget and weather effects which shouldn't be brought to this discussion
@nicoxsheep1007
@nicoxsheep1007 9 жыл бұрын
Over 9000+ folds you can get to Planet Vegeta, but sadly Frieza destroyed it after you fold 8999 folds
@JonathanLov
@JonathanLov 9 жыл бұрын
+KomunistangTUPA 8999 folds means you were only half way there.
@waddesaurusrex6414
@waddesaurusrex6414 8 жыл бұрын
I see what you did 😂
@Bot-vj6rp
@Bot-vj6rp 8 жыл бұрын
+KomunistangTUPA Two puns in one. I think i just died.
@lukemolwitz9769
@lukemolwitz9769 8 жыл бұрын
Actually, less than one half. You see, you must have OOOOOVER 9000!!!!!!!!!! folds.
@davidleon6233
@davidleon6233 6 жыл бұрын
You weeb Jkjkjkjkjk issa joke... don’t kill me
@stampzplayz6767
@stampzplayz6767 6 жыл бұрын
As a canadian, Y U MURICANS NO SWITCH TO METRIC
@detektivl6217
@detektivl6217 6 жыл бұрын
Like in every other country!!! (PS: I'm from Germany ;)
@mariafe7050
@mariafe7050 6 жыл бұрын
Just convert it.
@heyguysitsmeflyinggorilla2596
@heyguysitsmeflyinggorilla2596 6 жыл бұрын
I use the metric system
@iceburner4316
@iceburner4316 6 жыл бұрын
As a Lebanese I agree with you
@mattarnold3798
@mattarnold3798 5 жыл бұрын
It helps us walk on the moon better
@Krishnai.
@Krishnai. 3 жыл бұрын
His voice is just so relaxing 😌
@aravindgopal3555
@aravindgopal3555 7 жыл бұрын
Instructions not clear, stuck in orion's belt
@MrInstantRamen
@MrInstantRamen 7 жыл бұрын
Instructions not clear, stuck in Andromeda.
@cheeseburgermonkey7104
@cheeseburgermonkey7104 7 жыл бұрын
Instuctions not clear, stuck in the universe
@geffreygao6835
@geffreygao6835 7 жыл бұрын
Instructions not clear, still stuck on this annoying planet with it's pesky earthlings.
@jlknightetherion5549
@jlknightetherion5549 7 жыл бұрын
Instructions not clear Stuck near a nearby Universe
@jugemujugemugokonosurikire4735
@jugemujugemugokonosurikire4735 7 жыл бұрын
Instructions not clear, Reached Sagittarius A
@MrAk474life
@MrAk474life 8 жыл бұрын
I can only get to 44 folds
@goopyfish3275
@goopyfish3275 8 жыл бұрын
Woah your talented I'm stuck at 43
@StanDeMan2001
@StanDeMan2001 8 жыл бұрын
hahahaha✌
@giacomosuriano7017
@giacomosuriano7017 8 жыл бұрын
I can fold it 76 times 12 hours......
@Tlactl
@Tlactl 8 жыл бұрын
lol ur comment on October 5 2016 has 45 likes
@ctvgamingothman2331
@ctvgamingothman2331 8 жыл бұрын
Phillip Abreu '
@instantcrush8262
@instantcrush8262 8 жыл бұрын
Wouldn't the folded paper be extremly thin? I don't know how to explain it well, but wouldn't it be like a 'tower' that is insanely thin yet really tall? (just ignore me if it makes no sense, or is simply false. Never was good in science)
@emperorgluteusmaximus7069
@emperorgluteusmaximus7069 8 жыл бұрын
You're correct. Each fold decreases the surface area of the paper by half. This is all theoretical of course. It's obviously impossible.
@instantcrush8262
@instantcrush8262 8 жыл бұрын
EmperorGluteusMaximus im aware of that, thanks for replying
@CanWeGetSUBSWITHNOVIDS-sp7ye
@CanWeGetSUBSWITHNOVIDS-sp7ye 8 жыл бұрын
+Instant Crush Lol NOT TRUE FOLD YOUR HAND
@CanWeGetSUBSWITHNOVIDS-sp7ye
@CanWeGetSUBSWITHNOVIDS-sp7ye 8 жыл бұрын
+Instant Crush Lol NOT TRUE FOLD YOUR HAND
@theoutsider7854
@theoutsider7854 8 жыл бұрын
Instant Crush when u fold it, the thickness, if u measures the folded (lets say papers) hight it would have been doubled. Just like if you folded a blanket many times over, after each fold, you would find that it takes up more hight, while other dimensions may shrink
@mohammedbinalimaqqavi6599
@mohammedbinalimaqqavi6599 4 жыл бұрын
nice way to to explain exponential growth 💹
@lolhi9167
@lolhi9167 7 жыл бұрын
The only problem with this is that it's completely theoretical. A piece of paper can't fold that many times. The most that a standard sheet can get to is about 7 or 8 folds.
@farisakmal2722
@farisakmal2722 6 жыл бұрын
kzbin.info/www/bejne/oYOkdnWYpNmof6c
@jrexx2841
@jrexx2841 6 жыл бұрын
Dud its just sinple the smaller the paper the harder you can fold it so if you need a paper big enough to do 45 folds easily
@markkirwan372
@markkirwan372 6 жыл бұрын
Faris Akmal I
@titanf30
@titanf30 6 жыл бұрын
Record is 12. timeswww.google.com/amp/s/www.zmescience.com/science/math/folding-a4-paper-103-times-5345/amp/
@icebergmagno3321
@icebergmagno3321 6 жыл бұрын
Just use a paper the size of US
@Vapor817
@Vapor817 10 жыл бұрын
That's going to be one hell of a paper needle.
@isaiahphillip4112
@isaiahphillip4112 10 жыл бұрын
Eventually it'll be a one atom thick needle.
@ClassicGameGuys
@ClassicGameGuys 10 жыл бұрын
You came here because of that robot size comparison video, huh?
@AsassinF
@AsassinF 9 жыл бұрын
ClassicGameGuys hehehe. still looking for Miku
@guilhermerafaelzimermann4196
@guilhermerafaelzimermann4196 9 жыл бұрын
Vapor alien civilization : they said they would get here with only a paper,thats madness *super thin paper turns planet into juice because a fly touched the part on earth*
@birdhovno
@birdhovno 5 жыл бұрын
You guys forget that the paper stack would become incredibly thin....getting slimer and slimmer, so it would be about 0,0001 mm in diameter (less than a hair)
@abdulrhmanmohamed1918
@abdulrhmanmohamed1918 4 жыл бұрын
Why dont we just get a giant piece of paper?
@dinonuggiesguy4847
@dinonuggiesguy4847 4 жыл бұрын
@@abdulrhmanmohamed1918 cost
@ShannonSuban
@ShannonSuban 4 жыл бұрын
It isn't a piece of dough, it does not get thinner in this scenario
@levimckenna8344
@levimckenna8344 4 жыл бұрын
​@@dinonuggiesguy4847 they were joking, obviously they know that
@dinonuggiesguy4847
@dinonuggiesguy4847 4 жыл бұрын
@@levimckenna8344 k
@smilingzuko9613
@smilingzuko9613 3 жыл бұрын
The narrator sounds like he's gonna make me an offer which I can't refuse.
@rimanshug5264
@rimanshug5264 7 жыл бұрын
I've started to wonder why they built rockets !!
@TheNinthDJ
@TheNinthDJ 6 жыл бұрын
it is expensive,derr
@chrispetersonbacon2693
@chrispetersonbacon2693 6 жыл бұрын
Thrust. Quicker.
@Mystic-4252
@Mystic-4252 5 жыл бұрын
Boosters is Quicker, Stronger and highly durable, Can Protect Humans from Cosmic Debris, Can store Science and Research gadgets, Large and can fit a lot, Easier to do, Can help people explore new stuff in lesser time, Can carry Satellite s, Better than folding a paper
@wsdadasdawf8384
@wsdadasdawf8384 5 жыл бұрын
Just try to fold a paper 8 times and you will understand
@user-pf3zb7lv9b
@user-pf3zb7lv9b 5 жыл бұрын
because, elon musk
@bobtheflyingdonkey
@bobtheflyingdonkey 9 жыл бұрын
if u fold it 45 times u get a rly long piece of paper
@dekos2140
@dekos2140 9 жыл бұрын
+bobtheflyingdonkey rly long and skinny
@joseph-kim
@joseph-kim 9 жыл бұрын
+DEK Gaming Oh god.
@romelacasascortes2235
@romelacasascortes2235 9 жыл бұрын
What about 75 times?
@dekos2140
@dekos2140 9 жыл бұрын
romela casas even longer and skinnier
@HeroesOfPepsi
@HeroesOfPepsi 9 жыл бұрын
If you fold it 53 times you get to mars
@AdhiPambudi
@AdhiPambudi 8 жыл бұрын
First, I googled how many 250000 miles in kilometers.
@tanmang42
@tanmang42 8 жыл бұрын
+Adhi Pambudi We really need to switch to metric. Only problem is that people are against it since they grew up with it here in the states.
@myhkeith
@myhkeith 8 жыл бұрын
Tanmang42 nahh fam its much more complex than that
@ayla6418
@ayla6418 7 жыл бұрын
Adhi Pambudi HAHAHAH
@groszak1
@groszak1 7 жыл бұрын
I'm from Poland which is in Europe and I definitely agree that everyone needs to use metric.
@taylorsayles9706
@taylorsayles9706 7 жыл бұрын
Tanmang42 not just that... all of the books in schools use our system of measurement. even things such as road signs and milk cartons would have to be switched to metric, and quite frankly no one wants to pay all of those taxes.
@faslaiqbal628
@faslaiqbal628 3 жыл бұрын
I am sure. In the future there will be 'folds' as unit of distance
@bohanwithb1546
@bohanwithb1546 3 жыл бұрын
its already there!, for eg "i will repay this kindness ten-fold! "
@totallynotpaul6211
@totallynotpaul6211 3 жыл бұрын
@@bohanwithb1546 I think ten-fold doesn't mean you will repay it 1024 times over only 10
@bohanwithb1546
@bohanwithb1546 3 жыл бұрын
@@totallynotpaul6211 just sayin it's a unit of measurement in speech
@soulextracter
@soulextracter 9 жыл бұрын
So... the key to unlocking the universe is to build a "Paper Folding Drive" "Initiating PFD captain"
@GameBoy69MoneyMan
@GameBoy69MoneyMan 9 жыл бұрын
LOL😂😂
@jessenylund9652
@jessenylund9652 9 жыл бұрын
we're reaching fold 9!
@nhanvu8170
@nhanvu8170 9 жыл бұрын
I can fold 10 times only
@nhanvu8170
@nhanvu8170 9 жыл бұрын
Um I folded a piece of paper 5 times and it's thickness is like half a centimeter
@soulextracter
@soulextracter 9 жыл бұрын
Nhan Vu That's because it's only 32 layers thick at 5 folds, if you fold it 6 times you'd have 64 layers, 7 times and you'd have 128 layers and so on. Each fold doubles the amount of layers.
@dixonbuttes
@dixonbuttes 8 жыл бұрын
Came to comments to see if people would say "this is bullshit I can do it 25 times"
@ariryan8832
@ariryan8832 8 жыл бұрын
XD
@Christine.3671
@Christine.3671 8 жыл бұрын
Michael B I can do it 48 times!
@lemonice
@lemonice 9 жыл бұрын
BUT if I had 1 square meter of paper and I folded it in to half, then I have 0.5 square meters, then 0.25, 0.125... So it is smallest than atom in the end, right?
@BlackShot0wnageHD
@BlackShot0wnageHD 9 жыл бұрын
+Tygr Asijsky genius
@lemonice
@lemonice 9 жыл бұрын
Guitah Amir I know... :D
@dalibor8770
@dalibor8770 9 жыл бұрын
+Tygr Asijsky helemese, kdo tady je =D
@dalibor8770
@dalibor8770 9 жыл бұрын
Tygr Asijsky nič -.-
@lemonice
@lemonice 9 жыл бұрын
Dalibor Kovačič Jééééé to je hezkýýýý
@alphaamoeba
@alphaamoeba 4 жыл бұрын
This is something people don't seem to understand, especially in these harsh coronavirus times
@eesaisiot
@eesaisiot 3 жыл бұрын
It's crazy that the Covid-19 outbreak happened a year ago.
@alphaamoeba
@alphaamoeba 3 жыл бұрын
@@eesaisiot yeahh
@sfirro
@sfirro 7 жыл бұрын
Why on earth are we converting cm to feet and miles instead of meters and kilometers?
@mike4ty4
@mike4ty4 5 жыл бұрын
ikr
@zully_xo
@zully_xo 5 жыл бұрын
american system.
@basshead.
@basshead. 5 жыл бұрын
Well there are two kinds of countries, those who use the metric system, and those who have put a man on the moon.
@kubatutak9452
@kubatutak9452 5 жыл бұрын
SI vs old distance units
@basshead.
@basshead. 5 жыл бұрын
+Spurious That's your own but obviously wrong opinion.
@PhluppeHimself
@PhluppeHimself 10 жыл бұрын
Summary of most of the comments here: "I know it's mathematically correct, but it's not possible!" REALLY? It's just an idea that works in theory, just like ironman can invent a new element in 5 minutes for a movieplot or how dogs playing poker can work for a painting. Some people just don't understand the "if" in this video. Well at least we don't all suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect...
@trombone7
@trombone7 11 жыл бұрын
I know this exercise is performed to get us to consider the power of doubling, but what none of these "fold a piece of paper" thought experiments confront is that the surface area (coplanar area perpendicular to the axis we are doubling) is getting half as big each time. Yeah, it would theoretically reach the moon, but it would be theoretically smaller (thinner) than a neutrino.
@hyperbolicandivote
@hyperbolicandivote 11 жыл бұрын
You are correct, it surface area would be impossibly small on the flats and more than you started with on the folds. It is a thought experiment only.
@VenomCold
@VenomCold 11 жыл бұрын
What if the starting paper is big enough to reach 1m² after 45 folds?
@trombone7
@trombone7 11 жыл бұрын
TheDerDumme You would have to start with a piece of paper 13.58 million sq miles. That is approximately 10% of the earth's surface. (139 million sq mi). That's be 3685.6 miles on a side. Not exactly 8x11 printer paper. Just make a piece of paper that goes from NY to Paris on the x axis. And NY to Bolivia / S.America on the other. Done and done.
@VenomCold
@VenomCold 11 жыл бұрын
trombone7 challenge accepted.
@hamnhotcakes7931
@hamnhotcakes7931 8 жыл бұрын
trombone7 smart people like you make me hard
@shinytv5148
@shinytv5148 3 жыл бұрын
This is better than reading something out of google
@fridha2139
@fridha2139 8 жыл бұрын
can you use km also in your videos for non american subs? thx
@legendarydrampa4537
@legendarydrampa4537 8 жыл бұрын
Are you stupid?
@fridha2139
@fridha2139 8 жыл бұрын
No, I'm not stupid. I could ask you the same but I already know the answer.
@sektret1107
@sektret1107 8 жыл бұрын
I really hope you realize that cm is not the standard system america uses. Centimeters is a metric system measurement so is kilometers. So technically he isn't using American measurement.
@lieutenantdan8541
@lieutenantdan8541 8 жыл бұрын
Tae Bae why dont you convert
@andreaenemegio6002
@andreaenemegio6002 8 жыл бұрын
Explosions Fire n' More Because it would be very useful for americans to convert their whole metrical system to the same as the rest of the world lol
@ivanperkinov3877
@ivanperkinov3877 7 жыл бұрын
When I was in art class ,we were told we could do origami or draw. I was the only one who knew how to make a origami box ,so I grabbed 3 sheets of paper and made 2 ,but the third I cut in half, and made and smaller boxes and then I though to my self "what if I kept on folding the paper in half?" Then I did that. I got 6 boxes before I couldn't go smaller. I told my teacher "I made a box within a box within a box within a box within a box within a box".
@thezoexperience2
@thezoexperience2 6 жыл бұрын
Ivan Ivanov No one asked you that!
@SomethingProbablyNothing
@SomethingProbablyNothing 6 жыл бұрын
Zohaib Khan But its still an interesting story
@amir_shoukry
@amir_shoukry 6 жыл бұрын
BOX-CEPTION
@Coolet27
@Coolet27 6 жыл бұрын
I have a gum pack in a gum pack in a gum pack in a gum pack in a gum pack in a gum pack inside a gum pack inside a gum pack
@OldMrSarvy
@OldMrSarvy 8 жыл бұрын
why you convert centimeters in feet and not in meters?
@pivotboy11pivotanimations79
@pivotboy11pivotanimations79 8 жыл бұрын
because america you fucking communist
@OldMrSarvy
@OldMrSarvy 8 жыл бұрын
pivotboy11 Pivot Animations i m not communist,i m fascist!
@lehcki
@lehcki 8 жыл бұрын
+Mr. Sarvy it's because people that where educate with the metric system knows how to convert millimiter to meters easily but the ones that uses the imperial system don't know that.
@camcam_burger
@camcam_burger 8 жыл бұрын
I hate it how people jump on others in the comments!
@kellyohara6399
@kellyohara6399 8 жыл бұрын
It's caz us Mericans don't got proper edication
@infinity8715
@infinity8715 4 жыл бұрын
Everybody gansta till a giant folded paper hits on the head
@schweppesyt
@schweppesyt 6 жыл бұрын
it is exceptionally interesting how difficult it is for us to comprehend exponential growth
@savagery9637
@savagery9637 5 жыл бұрын
Directions unclear, there’s no hole in my roof
@dnax8723
@dnax8723 4 жыл бұрын
you can make it in back yard
@LewisVinyl
@LewisVinyl 4 жыл бұрын
DNAX gaming what if he has no backyard
@dnax8723
@dnax8723 4 жыл бұрын
@@LewisVinyl IDK xD
@eesaisiot
@eesaisiot 3 жыл бұрын
Your poor, you don't even have a yard.
@chiknnoodl
@chiknnoodl 8 жыл бұрын
The paper would get taller but also thinner with every food
@Blue_
@Blue_ 8 жыл бұрын
"food" noice okay
@benjaminsambol
@benjaminsambol 8 жыл бұрын
Lord Caden nice profile pic tho, fairytale on fleke
@michaelwu358
@michaelwu358 8 жыл бұрын
Lord Caden c
@humant3206
@humant3206 7 жыл бұрын
Yum yum, love myself some folded paper!
@yahya-ademolaademola3257
@yahya-ademolaademola3257 2 жыл бұрын
You should explain about the setbacks. The paper being folded increases in height, but reduces in length. Which means there's a limited height it can reach.
@researchhimaesp1293
@researchhimaesp1293 6 жыл бұрын
"And when it double it one more time, we can back to the moon" Damn
@gredangeo
@gredangeo 9 жыл бұрын
Why are you using miles for? You started off good in one unit, and fucked up.
@TheTatocba
@TheTatocba 9 жыл бұрын
gredangeo Americans won't get the metric system.....just be glad the idea was simple otherwise he'd start using football fields as a unit of measurement
@Perkele_Itse
@Perkele_Itse 9 жыл бұрын
+TheTatocba And that has an issue of it's own, as "football" field are actually "hand-egg" fields, much smaller than actual FOOTball fields :D
@TheTatocba
@TheTatocba 9 жыл бұрын
+TotalTempest American football ie a sport in which feet and ball have little to no contact at all! dude please dont get me started on "the world series" thingy hahaha!
@mathewgee3467
@mathewgee3467 9 жыл бұрын
+TotalTempest I'm from Australia.
@JKTCGMV13
@JKTCGMV13 9 жыл бұрын
+gredangeo As an American, metric is only practical for small things. Anything larger (like the distances you'll find on a road sign) is taught/displayed in Imperial so there's no real point using kilometers.
@toodings8456
@toodings8456 10 жыл бұрын
screw spaceships ill just start folding paper
@vighneshshetty2479
@vighneshshetty2479 Жыл бұрын
The way it went from 17 folds short midget to 25 folds Empire State Building is crazy!
@KorZen10
@KorZen10 8 жыл бұрын
If you fold a piece of paper 96 times, it will reach the length of the observable universe. Daaaaaaaaaaaaaang.
@chuknukbubs6322
@chuknukbubs6322 8 жыл бұрын
NƎcktie3223 how... Thin... Would its width... Flipping.... BE
@AdonayFloresLaMota
@AdonayFloresLaMota 8 жыл бұрын
Atoms thin? Would it still be called paper?
@KorZen10
@KorZen10 8 жыл бұрын
Adonay Flores I think so
@lochlain7840
@lochlain7840 8 жыл бұрын
challenge accepted
@KorZen10
@KorZen10 8 жыл бұрын
RadiantFireHD eks dee
@patrickgilles4870
@patrickgilles4870 7 жыл бұрын
What people don't think about is how incredibly small the paper would be folding it that many times. If you start out with a regular piece, and fold it 40 times there isn't now more paper so it would be a very small tower (~20x27~0.001=33,500x0.004x0.004). At the height of the Empire State Building, it would have sides only 4 times as long as the original length, making it an almost invisible tower.
@NefosG
@NefosG 11 жыл бұрын
If we fold this magical paper 107 times, it's length would be of 0.001 x 2^107 cm, or about 1.6225 x 10^29 cm, or 1.6225 x 10^27 meters (1,622,592,768,292,133,633,915,780,103 meters). That's almost twice as big as the observable universe (8.8 x 10^26 meters or 880,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 meters).
@timothyhagge8099
@timothyhagge8099 10 жыл бұрын
Lol thanks btw did u do that in ur head????
@timothyhagge8099
@timothyhagge8099 10 жыл бұрын
And u would have riped the paper long time befor the wut like 10th or so fold
@NefosG
@NefosG 10 жыл бұрын
Timothy Hagge Hey, that's a magical paper. And no, I used a calculator and some data from Wikipedia.
@NefosG
@NefosG 10 жыл бұрын
Dembara Lemoon Well, it's going to be smaller in volume, but not in length. Oh well, you got the picture.
@NefosG
@NefosG 10 жыл бұрын
Dembara Lemoon Please, I know that's an impossible scenario, that's why I called "magic paper", get it?
@Notthingreal
@Notthingreal 3 жыл бұрын
Hmm so I can go to the moon right now? Reality: let me introduce myself
@taroouu
@taroouu 3 жыл бұрын
Angelo
@benjaminvilshansky228
@benjaminvilshansky228 7 жыл бұрын
Problem is, it wud b rly thin. It wud b like an atom wide
@karimdrissi3892
@karimdrissi3892 7 жыл бұрын
not even
@benjaminvilshansky228
@benjaminvilshansky228 7 жыл бұрын
wat do u mean
@cheeseburgermonkey7104
@cheeseburgermonkey7104 7 жыл бұрын
make sure your spelling is correct (murk sure yur sperlerg irs curruct)
@kunalsingh-me9ek
@kunalsingh-me9ek 7 жыл бұрын
Paper can only be folded 7 times not more than that
@davidkinkade3884
@davidkinkade3884 7 жыл бұрын
7 X 11 in or 17.78 X 27.94 cm paper think about it less that a 0.001 cm or 0.00039370079 in
@aardvarkian1207
@aardvarkian1207 9 жыл бұрын
yeah but the paper would be incredibly small at 45 folds
@aardvarkian1207
@aardvarkian1207 9 жыл бұрын
+pidgetix thin, but tall is what i mean
@pupeEETR
@pupeEETR 9 жыл бұрын
+mooslet smaller than the hydrogen atom
@aardvarkian1207
@aardvarkian1207 9 жыл бұрын
Pupe EETR probably smaller than that
@pupeEETR
@pupeEETR 9 жыл бұрын
+Jacqueline Filo i divided 1/2^45, it is supposing that the paper is 1 meter squared, then it is is 1 percent of the size
@HeroesOfPepsi
@HeroesOfPepsi 9 жыл бұрын
If the paper is 10 000 000 meters long and you fold it 45 times it would only be 0,2842 micrometers wide
@BobfromSydney
@BobfromSydney 8 жыл бұрын
Before I start folding my paper tower to get to the moon, I will first fold steel to forge a katana to cut the moon in half with.
@davidkinkade3884
@davidkinkade3884 7 жыл бұрын
how you cut the moon with a katana the katana with go about 1 to 3 cm more if you are lucky you find a spot have a lot of He2
@nine182
@nine182 7 жыл бұрын
David Kinkade Just shut up
@davidkinkade3884
@davidkinkade3884 7 жыл бұрын
and Radius is 1,079 mi its Density is 3.34 grams
@pacuti7049
@pacuti7049 3 жыл бұрын
Me - folding paper Dad- what are u doing Me -planing to go to moon
@Përkyplsz
@Përkyplsz 4 жыл бұрын
Ted Ed: *lessons worth sharing* Me: brain dead after this 4 minute vid
@It9LpBFS37
@It9LpBFS37 10 жыл бұрын
if you fold it 103 times, u get the size of whole observable universe
@likeasir3920
@likeasir3920 10 жыл бұрын
.
@ratreptile
@ratreptile 10 жыл бұрын
That just blew my mind
@patrikstreng6834
@patrikstreng6834 9 жыл бұрын
Damn. But it shrinks in width and doubles in height. Still amazing
@aardvarkian1207
@aardvarkian1207 9 жыл бұрын
+patrik streng also, folding a paper the width of a needle head and as tall as the empire state building would be incredibly difficult for anything
@christopherurena8922
@christopherurena8922 9 жыл бұрын
If you fold it a googolplex time we lets just say you broke physics a trillion time
@BakedPotatoYT1
@BakedPotatoYT1 4 жыл бұрын
Ok, but why do i feel like swallowing my saliva just from hearing this guy talking?
@Will____13007
@Will____13007 3 жыл бұрын
w...t...f...
@cubicyt9441
@cubicyt9441 3 жыл бұрын
Wait, do you swallow your saliva everytime ( gulping), then you have aerophagia
@GeometryDashing_Gionic
@GeometryDashing_Gionic 2 жыл бұрын
it could also be that multiplying and folding a piece of paper 103 times could actually get you to the edge of the universe 93 billion light years
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