What's more shocking: 103 fold and it's longer than the diameter of the WHOLE UNIVERSE. Edit: there isn't a confirmed size of the _whole_ universe the current estimate is 600 billion ly but the observable universe is at most 93 light years
@@zPiey diameter of the discovered universe is a few billion lightyears, the observable universe is 93 billion lightyears and the unobservable universe is *estimated* to be 600 billion lightyears but the 103 paper folds is over a trillion lightyears
@@dontalks1060the entire universe is larger than the observable universe. we didn't "discover" a part of the universe, we are only observing the part of the universe in which light is able to reach us. in reality, the universe is expanding at a superluminal speed, so we cannot have a piece of paper with _n_ amount of folds that can be as long/tall as the entire universe. the observable universe is called the observable universe because, past 93 billion light years, the finite speed of light does not have time to reach us in the foreseeable future.
@@dontalks1060so do not use complicated terminology when you don't know what they truly mean. the diameter of the entire universe is unknown because it is expanding at a speed faster than light, so it cannot be 600 billion ly across.
Whats more shocking?: What happens if we fold a paper 103 times? Our paper folded 103 times has a thickness of approximately 1,014,120,480,182 trillion km, and the known universe is approximately 880,024,376,000 trillion km. Meaning our paper at 103 folds is approximately 1,014,120,480,182 - 880,024,376,000 = 134,096,104,182 trillion km thicker than the known universe is wide
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
It gets smaller in width, but taller. When you fold a paper it gets thicker. It’s physically impossible to fold a paper unless it’s massive. Myth busters has an episode where they fold paper so much, it gets to the size of a basketball. it’s on youtube
I really think this is a litmus test. Surface area is a thing guys. You cannot fold a piece of paper and have it magically reach the moon unless said piece of paper could ALREADY reach the moon before being folded. This is so moronic
If we reach the subatomic levels during folding, it will be impossible to fold again. So, you're partly right. But if we don't, then it's possible. Even though it would be impossible to even see the sheet of paper.
If that is the part that trouble u then u are indeed a moron. The paper has to be 0.0000…01 mm wide to be able to go that far. So you cant even see the paper anyway.
42 folds will get you to the Moon. 81 folds and your paper will be 127,786 light-years, almost as thick as the Andromeda Galaxy. At 103 folds, you will get outside of the observable Universe, which is estimated at 93 billion light-years in diameter.
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)
By 81 folds, your thick piece of paper will measure 127,786 light-years across, reaching the length of the Andromeda Galaxy (141,000 light-years) Another 9 folds will push things to 130.8 million light-years across
