The distance from Earth to the moon is 238,900 miles, or 15,136,700,000 inches (we'll call it 15 billion for the sake of convenience). Now, the question is: how many folds would it take to fold a piece of paper that high?
You would start with 0.005 inches (width of the paper), an increase it exponentially for every time you folded the paper in half. This results in 42 folds to reach 15 billion inches (distance to the moon).
This would never happen in real life because you could never fold a piece of paper that many times; the world record is 12 folds. The paper would also have to be incredibly big, and would be incredibly small by the time you got to 42 folds. Fun fact, if you were to fold a standard piece of paper 103 times, the paper would be bigger than the observable universe; 93 billion light-years across. Thanks for reading.
You would start with 0.005 inches (width of the paper), an increase it exponentially for every time you folded the paper in half. This results in 42 folds to reach 15 billion inches (distance to the moon).
This would never happen in real life because you could never fold a piece of paper that many times; the world record is 12 folds. The paper would also have to be incredibly big, and would be incredibly small by the time you got to 42 folds. Fun fact, if you were to fold a standard piece of paper 103 times, the paper would be bigger than the observable universe; 93 billion light-years across. Thanks for reading.