Six Degrees of Separation

“Six degrees of separation” is a philosophical term which means that any two human beings in this world are connected through at the most six acquaintances. It is thought to be a lot related to the term “Small World” now. Several studies relevant to the Small World Experiment have shown that any two individuals could be connected through 5 or at most 6 personal acquaintances. This proves that even when the size of the world is increasing and population explosion is taking place, because of the technological advances people can connect to each other remotely and thus there is a more connectedness in the world. Now or then, whenever you hear a person saying that the World is getting smaller or the World is so small, you know what he/she means. Wow, doesn’t this sound great? Now, I can say that President Bush is my relative’s, relative’s, relative’s, relative’s, relative’s relative. Such a close relation, I never knew it. Same I can say for any great celebrities or icons. Oh my god! Now I am connected to anybody in Hollywood and Bollywood, so as everybody. The only bad part is, it may happen that CIA comes and arrests you on behalf of being connected to Osama Bin Laden. So be careful! But this is something very good and interested people can search more about it on Wikipedia.

Just to mention for the science geeks, even the network theory uses this concept for developing interlinks between two destinations to send a packet.