The answer, counterintuitively, is "yes", for after n minutes, the ratio of the distance travelled by the worm to the total length of the rubber band is

\frac{1}{100}\sum_{k=1}^n\frac{1}{k}

(In fact the actual ratio is a little less than this sum as the band expands continuously). The reason is that the band expands behind the worm also; eventually, the worm gets past the midway mark and the band behind expands increasingly more rapidly than the band in front.

Because the series gets arbitrarily large as n becomes larger, eventually this ratio must exceed 1, which implies that the worm reaches the end of the rubber band. However, the value of n at which this occurs must be extremely large: approximately e100, a number exceeding 10^44.

The exact value of n is 15092688622113788323693563264538101449859497.

Although the harmonic series does diverge, it does so very slowly.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2959236&forum_id=2...id#28519125)

but i still dont get it. why isnt it the case that the distance between the worm and the end of the rope is getting longer and longer over time, so the worm can never reach the end?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2959236&forum_id=2...id#28519590)