We have (in theory) established that any person on Earth can get to any other person through 6 friends. Give me an example when this would be impossible. It would not work!
2006-07-13 15:28:17 · 4 answers · asked by Maha Shakti 2 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
Given that part of network theory focuses on network density, there is what they refer to as critical mass, which I guess we have beat many times over to acheive the redundancy to reach anyone in 6 or less moves.
So, we need to find isolated individuals, who have been that way their whole life. Maybe a feral child, raised by wolves wouldn't be connectable. So might be a Saskwatch if you could loosely call them a person. What if Saskwatch were highly territorial, to the point of all males never communicated directly together, and the females were only mobile within a certain area but were the carriers of information between the pairs. In that case, there would be enough holes in the network to prevent one of us to be within six degrees should someone actually verify the existance of such a creature and befriend them; if there territory was long enough to require three or four contacts to get to the most remote member.
This might actually work for a very large commune should it have rules of contact between individuals to minimize what is referred to as network density so that some networks are either isolated, or distantly connected to another.
Thinking about it, odds are that somewhere there is a group of people that contain folks that are removed from many of us by more than six degrees.
2006-07-13 17:30:37 · answer #1 · answered by bizsmithy 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't know but my inclination would be a hermit somewhere, but the link to the next degree doesn't have to be very strong so it could be I am linked to someone who once went on a camping trip to the same forest the hermit lives in or something.
So I can't think of one off the top of my head. Sorry.
2006-07-13 16:27:05 · answer #2 · answered by az 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-10 06:25:50 · answer #3 · answered by civil 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
first i'd like to say if u don't have 6 friends to wrk wid....or the person u try to contact is not around or u are confused on who to contact......and if u put tyme into meditating then u can reach someone w/o others.....
2006-07-13 16:05:46 · answer #4 · answered by anh23059 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋