Six Degrees of Separation (play)
Six Degrees of Separation is a play written by John Guare that premiered in 1990.
Six Degrees of Separation explores the existential premise that everyone in the world is connected to everyone else in the world by a chain of no more than six acquaintances, thus, "six degrees of separation".
The plot of the play was inspired by the real-life story of David Hampton, a con man and robber who managed to convince a number of people in the 1980s that he was the son of actor Sidney Poitier. The writer John Guare was a friend of Inger McCabe Elliott and her husband Osborn Elliott. In October 1983 Hampton came to the Elliott's New York apartment and they allowed him to spend the night. The next morning Inger Elliott found Hampton in bed with another man and later called the police. The Elliotts told Guare about the story and it inspired him to write the play years later.
After the play became a dramatic and financial success, Hampton was tried and acquitted for harassment of Guare; he felt he was due a share of the profits that he ultimately never received.
Six degrees of separation
Six degrees of separation is the theory that everyone and everything is six or fewer steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person in the world, so that a chain of "a friend of a friend" statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps. It was originally set out by Frigyes Karinthy in 1929 and popularized by a 1990 play written by John Guare.
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Shrinking world
Theories on optimal design of cities, city traffic flows, neighborhoods and demographics were in vogue after World War I. These conjectures were expanded in 1929 by Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy, who published a volume of short stories titled Everything is Different. One of these pieces was titled "Chains," or "Chain-Links." The story investigated in abstract, conceptual, and fictional terms many of the problems that would captivate future generations of mathematicians, sociologists, and physicists within the field of network theory. Due to technological advances in communications and travel, friendship networks could grow larger and span greater distances. In particular, Karinthy believed that the modern world was 'shrinking' due to this ever-increasing connectedness of human beings. He posited that despite great physical distances between the globe's individuals, the growing density of human networks made the actual social distance far smaller.
Six Degrees of Separation (Battlestar Galactica)
"Six Degrees of Separation" is the seventh episode of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica television series.
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When Dr. Baltar mocks the concept of gods, particularly Internal Six's belief in a single God, she vanishes from his head and a flesh-and-blood Number Six arrives. Calling herself Shelly Godfrey, she accuses Baltar of assisting in the Cylons attack on the human colonies and offers photographic evidence. Baltar is thrown into the brig.
While Lt. Gaeta conducts an analysis of the evidence, President Roslin reveals to Baltar that she is not surprised at the news of his treachery. Baltar then prays to the Cylon God for assistance as he has no wish to be executed as a traitor. Gaeta determines that Godfrey's evidence has been faked and Baltar is released. Internal Six returns to Baltar while Godfrey has somehow disappeared and Baltar speculates that Godfrey may have been a manifestation of his Internal Six all along.
On Caprica, Helo and the model Eight posing as Boomer hide in a forest. Helo uses the opportunity to confess his growing feelings for her and the two make love.
Six Degrees of Separation (song)
"Six Degrees Of Separation" is a song by Irish pop rock band The Script, taken from their third studio album, #3 (2012). The song was released as the album's second single on 25 November 2012. The track was written by Danny O'Donoghue, Mark Sheehan, Steve Kipner and Andrew Frampton. The music video for "Six Degrees Of Separation" was uploaded to YouTube on 5 November 2012 at a total length of three minutes and fifty-seven seconds. The band performed the song live during Children in Need on 16 November 2012. The band also performed the track live on The Voice of Holland on 7 December 2012, as well as performing "Hall of Fame" with the remaining contestants.
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