Chapter 8. Creating Circular Momentum
REMEMBER THE GAME SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION? THE IDEA WAS THAT YOU COULD CONNECT ANY CHARACTER IN ANY MOVIE TO KEVIN BACON BY CONNECTING NO MORE THAN SIX ACTORS. THE GAME WAS BASED ON THE SMALL WORLD EXPERIMENT, CONDUCTED BY STANLEY MILGRAM, AN AMERICAN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGIST WHO WAS FAMOUS FOR A VARIETY OF INTERESTING AND INNOVATIVE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY EXPERIMENTS.
The theory that we’re all connected through six degrees of separation is true, in many cases. Oh, sure, it’s not true if you’re a member of the secluded Baniwa tribe in the Amazon Rainforest. But if you’re Nanci Steveson living in Bay Head, New Jersey, the odds are pretty good that you could be connected to, say, Davis Tucker living in Austin, Texas, ...
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