What about the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon?
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It’s not really science so much as math. Assume you know 30 people (some people will know more, some less, but lets say the average is 30). Each of those people knows 30 (of which you’re one), and so on. If all those people are randomly connected and there’s 6 billion people (i.e. earth), the math works out that the maximum number of connections between any two people is about 6ish.
The Kevin Bacon thing isn’t anything magic about Kevin Bacon other than he’s been in a lot of movies so he’s connected to a lot more than 30 people, which kind of jump starts the process.
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