Antisemitism explained through network science - chapter 4
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Have you ever wondered about the strange relationship between the world and the Jews? The root cause behind antisemitism and the cure for this persistent phenomenon? Who are the Jews? Is everyone a Jew? This and other questions are finally getting answered with network science, big data and some help from ancient texts.
Any scalable network that can communicate with all of its parts within six or fewer degrees, it's called a small world, and it can become extremely efficient, massively efficient, and grow in quantity and complexity, if it's made of nodes and hubs, and only if the number of hubs and nodes fit into a special ratio. The math goes something like this. P(k)~k-y. What this formula exposes is the degree distribution in any scale-free system. It lets us just look right into something that used to be hidden. It changed the way we look at things and what we see is truly miraculous. Scale-free, small world networks are everywhere—super clusters, solar systems, the molecular structure of proteins, the building blocks of matter itself. In fact, everything around us is made this way and it even does this through us, consciously, subconsciously, the electrical grid in the U.S., the international airport's structure, the highway system, international businesses, even the structure of the Internet and social media. Everything falls within the parameters or this formula. Lots of nodes, very few hubs seems to be the best, most efficient way to make and maintain any complex system in our reality. Here's the thing. Nodes are the elements of the system, its residence. Everything that happens in the system happens for the well-being of the nodes, the individual and collective development of the network. Hubs, on the other hand, are hyper-connected nodes that do the critical function of passing information and resources throughout the system in the fastest most efficient way possible. This is what makes the system survive, because it's able to respond holistically and instantaneously to any need or challenge. A system can lose a lot of nodes as long as the minimum hub to node ratio remains the same, but as soon as the number of hubs drops below the ratio, you get system breakdown. If enough of the relatively small number of hubs are destroyed, or for some reason weakened in their function, the system fails and collapses. What does that have to do with us and the Jews?