June 2011 Archives

I have been thinking about the complexity of life. Assume that we have six billion people on earth. Let's also assume that each of us is interacting with every other person on earth. Each of us will be interacting with (6 billion - 1) people. Life would be as if six billion people are playing chess against each other. This is a combination problem in Math. Using the formula for combination, the total number of games going on with the above assumptions would be: 

Of course, this is a simplification, comparing the world to the game of chess.