"Give an enormous sheet of newspaper which folded over on itself 100 times let's imagine that's possible how thick would would the eventual wad of paper be? The thickness of a brick? A shoe box? As Sam Harris points out, to prove a similar points about intuition in his excellent book The End of Faith, the correct answer is that the resulting object would be as thick as the known universe. Again. we anchor ourselves to the initial smaller measurements."
Derren Brown, Tricks of the Mind, p257
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