The 6 Degrees Of Separation Is A Mere Ideal For Viral Transmission

The Ones Who See What Others Do Not

Mi'kail Eli'yah
7 min readOct 10, 2022

The theory states that anyone on earth can be connected to any other person on the planet through a chain of acquaintances that has no more than 5 intermediaries.

As accordingly, the chain continues with the same procedure. Each sender has to relay the same to the other link to do likewise, and if chaining is unbroken, according to the correlation degree on the network theory, the mathematics will do the magic. The theory states that in the terms of non-collision, after 5 layers, if given 3 connections of each node each, we have:

"""
# Modeling assumption: Non-repeated connection directed graph
"""
number_of_connections_of_each_node_assumed = 3
number_of_layers = 5 # 10
# z = \sum^{i=5}_{i=1} 3^iz = 0;for i in range(1, (number_of_hops+1)):
z += number_of_connections_of_each_node_assumed**i

print('z = ', z) # number of entities reached

which means there will be 363 people receiving it. Accordingly to theory, at least 1 significant figure will receive it. If the layers reach 10, in non-collision, 88 572 people will receive it. This can ideally happen in short days if the links does not delay the forwarding chain.

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