Emergence of Network Science

Documentary unfolding the science behind the idea of six degrees of separation. Originally thought to be an urban myth, it now appears that anyone on the planet can be connected in just a few steps of association. Six degrees of separation is also at the heart of a major scientific breakthrough; that there might be a law which nature uses to organize itself and that now promises to solve some of its deepest mysteries.


Source: Cornell

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  1. alonzo commented on May 25

    If there is a universal natural law forming spontaneous complexity through some innate drive to self-organization but the 2nd law of thermodynamics says – at least to this layman’s understanding – that the universe is slowly, inexorably degenerating into total chaos, the next few decades of science is going to be very interesting.

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