Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Counter-Intuitive

In End of Faith, page 183 :

When asked how thick a piece of newspaper would be if one could fold it upon itself one hundred times in succession, most of us imagine something about the size of a brick. A little arithmetic reveals, however, that such an object would be as thick as the known universe.




1 comment:

Cameron said...

I found this and thought you might like it, the 'Evil God Challenge';

http://lawpapers.blogspot.com/2009/06/evil-god-challenge-forthcoming-in.html