"If you fold a piece of A4 paper in half 44 times it will reach the moon"

I didn't believe the guy when he told me, then he explained it.. It makes a great deal of sense!

Just thought that I'd share :)

No, it's not possible to actually do it - it's all theory.

Okay...I'm lost. Explain, please?

I thot 7 was the limit

Me too, because a piece of paper is just a piece of paper no matter how you fold it

you been hittin the crack again?

It's a theory - it's not possible to do..
but if you could fold it 44 times, it would surpass the height of the moon.

Oh, in thickness.

A4 paper is approximately .1mm thick. If you fold a piece of A4 paper in half 44 times (yes, we all know that this is physically impossible, we are talking theoretically here), you would effectively be doubling the thickness of the piece of paper with each fold. Simple math produces the answer: 1,787,366 KM The mean (average) distance from the Earth to the Moon is 382,500 km. So folding a piece of common copy paper in half 44 times would would result in a piece of paper thick enough to reach to the Moon and back over four and a half times!

That's only true if you assume that the paper wouldn't tear at its own seams as you folded it. But it would, way before 44 folds.

Cows produce one-eighth of their weight in saliva every day.

did you know that if you stretched out the yarn used to make a scarf, it'd stretch from here to kansas city, kansas?

It still irks me though...it's a natural fallacy by definition.

It's like saying "if, theoretically, I could drink 1.3 x 10^1015 gallons of water, then I could drink Lake Michigan."

Technically that's true because I've used a false premise.

I'm not discounting that it's a cool notion, just that it hurts my head thinking about it as a "theory".

my theory is still crack, not theoretically either

What so you have against the scarf?

My shoddy and not thorough math tells me that by the time the piece of paper were folded enough to reach the moon, its surface area would have shrunk from 88 in.^2 (11x8 piece of paper) to .5 x 10 ^ - 12 in. ^2.

As best I could find online for the surface area of a pin, that would make the folded piece of paper have a top and bottom surface area 2 trillion times smaller than the head of a pin. !!!

*cough*