When I was telling my parents about this blog (well, I was telling them about the IT project, which meant telling them about this blog) I said that I was going to email friends and family to email their friends and family asking people to visit the blog, so I could build up a chain of visitors, hopefully from across the world.
My Mitera said this reminded her something she had heard, about everyone being related within six links. My Pateras said she had it wrong, and she was thinking of a BBC programme they had seen. But he said there was a theory called "six degrees of separation." I thought this might be quite interesting, and I might be able to track something from the emails (If anyone reading this blog notices any evidence, please let me know. Ευχαριστώ πάρα πολύ.)
I went webwise to see what else I could find out.
"Six degrees of separation is the theory that anyone on the planet can be connected to any other person on the planet through a chain of acquaintances that has no more than five intermediaries."
http://digbig.com/4sbac [Points please, Sir - shortened url]
E-mail Study Corroborates Six Degrees of Separation
By Dan Cho
" Chances are, you don’t personally know any Australian policemen, Estonian archival inspectors or Norwegian army veterinarians. But you could probably get in touch with one of these distant individuals through a friend, or a friend of a friend, or a friend of your friend’s friend. The notion that every person on the planet is separated from everyone else by a chain of about six people has been around for some time. A report published today in the journal Science provides experimental data from the Internet in support of that claim."
And if you want to put it to the test - http://smallworld.columbia.edu/
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