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Can you fold anything more than 12 times?

You can grab a paper right now and start folding it in halves. After 4 or 5 folds, it will be pretty difficult to continue folding. The world record for folding a piece of paper is 12 times. All of this is okay and you could read this just about anywhere. But, it is what follows that I strongly disagree with and I call upon any challenger to change my mind. Consider the statement: You can't fold anything more than a certain number of times. Lets investigate if it is indeed true for everything. Liquids and gases are out of the question because you can't fold them and when it comes to solids; things like paper, cloth and just about anything that can fold, seems to obey the rule. But there are always exceptions, Have you ever rolled a dough flat and then folded it in half? If you have then you know you can fold and flatten the dough an infinite number of times. Hence the statement is incorrect i.e. it is physically possible to fold an object as many times required with proportiona