the one that says any 2 people in the world can be connected to each other through a chain of 6 other people or less?
2007-08-09 06:06:52 · 4 answers · asked by Whoa!!Whoa!! 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
billgoats79, it would take only one person to have met someone out side the tribe and then everyone else could also be connected to this one person and everyone the ousider knows.
2007-08-09 06:14:48 · update #1
It's not a question of belief, since belief does not require evidence or even logic.
We can see if it's probable, though, by making some reasonable assumptions. If you know ten people and they each know ten different people you now have one hundred people, or ten squared. Done again, 100 x 10 = 1000, or ten cubed. Repeated six times is ten raised to the sixth power, or one million - lots of people but not nearly enough for the six-degree thing to work.
However, all we have to do is change our initial assumption to each person knowing 32 other people, which raised to the sixth power is over six billion, the current population of the earth (remember that each person has to know 32 *different* people than all the others for this to guarantee the result).
Or, make it 7 degrees and you only have to know 20 people, and so on.
2007-08-09 08:36:15 · answer #1 · answered by hznfrst 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope. It depends on how many people you know. Some cultures are very segrageted from the rest of the world. They never meet anyone outside of their tribe.
2007-08-09 13:11:54 · answer #2 · answered by billgoats79 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have youever heard of someone named George W. Bush...? hey, so have I! Guess what, we have something in common!
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2007-08-09 13:11:35 · answer #3 · answered by cdf-rom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes i think so... power of though makes it happen... the more ppl who think its possible it becomes possible...
2007-08-09 13:15:15 · answer #4 · answered by Aaliyah J 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋