{"id":3176,"date":"2008-09-21T23:21:26","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T05:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/folding-a-piece-of-paper-100-times\/"},"modified":"2009-05-11T00:34:53","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T06:34:53","slug":"folding-a-piece-of-paper-100-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/folding-a-piece-of-paper-100-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Folding a Piece of Paper 100 Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Here&#8217;s a question for you: If you take a newspaper and repeatedly fold it in half about 100 times, how thick will it end up being?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Your answer doesn&#8217;t need to be exact. Just give me a ballpark.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><em>Reply: That depends on how thick the paper is. But however thick the paper is, it will be 200 times thicker than the paper was not folded in half<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Actually, it will be thicker than the entire universe. Folding means exponentiation. 2^100 = a massive number.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The point is that none of your arguments are scientific. They are intuitive. And as my little paper folding question above showed, intuition is not a very good mechanism for reasoning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*Updated May 11, 2009*<\/p>\n<p>Here is a video of Mythbusters folding a football field size piece of paper \u00a010 times.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kRAEBbotuIE<\/p>\n<p>FYI &#8211; I don&#8217;t even remember how this post got onto my blog. I guess I was interested in how wildly different the explanations of this were&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a question for you: If you take a newspaper and repeatedly fold it in half about 100 times, how thick will it end up being? Your answer doesn&#8217;t need to be exact. Just give me a ballpark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-Pe","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4125,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions\/4125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}