Small World Experiment - six degrees leading to every human

It’s a small world” is such a casual saying, but ever thought what it actually means? The theory of “six degrees of separation" claims that any one of us can be linked to any one else on earth by a chain of six contacts on average. It’s a fascinating research area, especially when harnessing email and the Internet.

I am hoping that the Scienceforum community could help me with a small experiment in this area, toward my university final project in web media design, the small-world-network , http://www.small-world-network.com . It’s short, confidential, won’t lead to spam (promise!), and will help further research in a field championed by Stanley Milgram and, more recently, Duncan Watts and team http://smallworld.columbia.edu/ at Columbia University.

I hope you’ll find it interesting and will consider taking two minutes to help the project along.

Thanks very much,

Markus Schuhbauer, Germany.