Would it possible to literally STRETCH a DOLLAR BILL?”
At some level, everything stretches. There’s a tiny, tiny bit of give in everything bigger than an atom (and even there, you’ve got some options.) A dollar bill is made up of a mesh of fibers. The individual fibers are mostly cotton, and some linen. Each of those fibers has a fair bit of stretch to it, and also a fair bit of give. The “stretchiness” is elasticity, the ability to stretch it and have it snap back. Cotton fibers are fairly stretchy: The fibers are a bit kinked, and when you pull on them, they straighten out. But the kink itself is a property of the fiber, and when you let go, it’ll snap itself back. The “give” is its ability to be stretched and retain that shape without breaking. Cotton fibers have some of that, too, though to see it you’d need a molecular level picture of the cotton. You introduce little breaks into the fibers, allowing it to elongate. The strength is reduced, but it can still hold. But actual dollar bills don’t seem stretchy, and that’s partly because o
