The small-world experiment comprised several experiments conducted by Stanley Milgram and other researchers examining the average path length for social...

1974 book, Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View. His other small-world experiment, while at Harvard, led researchers to analyze the degree of connectedness...

conducted an analogous experiment on social connectedness amongst Internet email users. Their effort was named the Columbia Small World Project, and included...

General Electric SmallWorlds, a 3D virtual world aSmallWorld, an internet network Small-world experiment, a series of social network experiments conducted by...

Small-world network example Hubs are bigger than other nodes A small-world network is a graph characterized by a high clustering coefficient and low distances...

The Stanford prison experiment (SPE) was a psychological experiment conducted in August 1971. It was a two-week simulation of a prison environment that...

and Bacon. Small-world experiment Morphy Number, connections via chess games to Paul Morphy Shusaku number, equivalent in the Go world with Honinbo...

The Cavendish experiment, performed in 1797–1798 by English scientist Henry Cavendish, was the first experiment to measure the force of gravity between...

geographic location, IP address, etc. In the case of Milgram's original small-world experiment, participants knew the location and occupation of the final recipient...

including the small-world experiment, the lost-letter experiment, the street-corner (or gawking) experiment, the familiar stranger experiment, and various...

A thought experiment is a hypothetical situation in which a hypothesis, theory, or principle is laid out for the purpose of thinking through its consequences...

Beginning on August 7, 1961, a series of social psychology experiments were conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram, who intended to...

following examples: the midnight ride of Paul Revere, Milgram's experiments in the small world problem, the "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" trivia game, Dallas...

future and race against time to put an end to the experiment that now threatens the fate of the entire world. In 1943, United States Navy sailors David Herdeg...

In modern physics, the double-slit experiment demonstrates that light and matter can satisfy the seemingly incongruous classical definitions for both waves...

Nazi human experimentation was a series of medical experiments on prisoners by Nazi Germany in its concentration camps mainly between 1942 and 1945. There...

demonstrated by Italian experimenters a few decades earlier. According to the story, Galileo discovered through this experiment that the objects fell with...

inter-connectedness of all people Small-world experiment – Experiments examining the average path length for social networks Small-world network – Graph where most...

The Kansas experiment was a name given to a controversial and widely noted tax-cutting policy/agenda of Kansas Governor Sam Brownback that began with Brownback...

The Michelson–Morley experiment was an attempt to measure the motion of the Earth relative to the luminiferous aether, a supposed medium permeating space...

The Miller–Urey experiment (or Miller experiment) was an experiment in chemical synthesis carried out in 1952 that simulated the conditions thought at...

The Rutherford scattering experiments were a landmark series of experiments by which scientists learned that every atom has a nucleus where all of its...

The Wu experiment was a particle and nuclear physics experiment conducted in 1956 by the Chinese American physicist Chien-Shiung Wu in collaboration with...

The Bedford Level experiment was a series of observations carried out along a 6-mile (10 km) length of the Old Bedford River on the Bedford Level of the...

mechanics, Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment concerning quantum superposition. In the thought experiment, a hypothetical cat may be considered simultaneously...

aspects of the small world experiment. He was one of the first to realize that Stanley Milgram's famous "six degrees" letter-passing experiment implied not...

66778°N 4.09778°W / 56.66778; -4.09778 The Schiehallion experiment was an 18th-century experiment to determine the mean density of the Earth. Funded by...

The Jewish geography game can be seen as a form of testing the small-world experiment, Stanley Milgram's research into the probability that two randomly...

attracted attention for his modern-day replication of Stanley Milgram's small world experiment using email messages and for his studies of popularity and fads...

importance of the experiment for special relativity, in which it corresponds to the relativistic velocity-addition formula when restricted to small velocities...