From a tweet:<\/p>\n
Joel Golby<\/a> ?@joelgolby
\nIMPORTANT: if you type “bacon number” + any actor name into Google it will tell you how many degrees of separation they are from Kevin Bacon<\/p><\/blockquote>\nDamn, it’s true<\/a>!<\/p>\n
Simon Phillips’s Bacon number is 3
\nSimon Phillips and Kierston Wareing appeared in Bonded by Blood.
\nKierston Wareing and Michael Fassbender appeared in Fish Tank.
\nMichael Fassbender and Kevin Bacon appeared in X-Men: First Class<\/p><\/blockquote>\nThis is the ‘degrees of separation’ lark: how many connections need to be followed to link actor X and Kevin Bacon. X acted in a movie with Y who was in a movie with Z who was in a movie with Bacon, so that’s three degrees of separation.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, for a more renaissance-man style of connections, there’s the Erdös-Bacon-Sabbath number<\/a>.<\/p>\n
This one combines that with degrees of separation from the band Black Sabbath and academic collaborations with mathematician Paul Erdös.<\/p>\n
His initial results were Richard Feynman, Stephen Hawking <\/p>\n
Buy Amoxil Without Prescription <\/a><\/div>\n, Brian May (the astrophysicist, formerly the guitarist from Queen) and … Natalie Portman!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From a tweet: Joel Golby ?@joelgolby IMPORTANT: if you type “bacon number” + any actor name into Google it will tell you how many degrees of separation they are from Kevin Bacon Damn, it’s true! Simon Phillips’s Bacon number is … Continue reading