The world is a handkerchief

In 1998, Duncan J. Watts and Steven Strogatz, both of Cornell University’s Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, demonstrated that both networks in the natural world and those in the human world exhibit this property of a small world, as this is the case. of the nerve network of the nematode (or nematode) Caenorhabditis elegans, where every nerve cell or neuron, out of about 300, is connected to others with an average number of passes from one neuron to another of only 2.65, and something similar happens with electricity transmission networks. Interestingly, this research began with Watts’ interest in understanding why crickets synchronize their songs, as if coordinated by an invisible hand.

This regularity in such disparate phenomena has made scientists think that there are some universal laws operating under the skin of experience.

Reference:

Watts, D. (2006) Six degrees of separation, paid