O, teh interwebz!

A planet-wide survey of some 30,000,000 instant messages (via Microsoft) sent by 240,000,000 people have confirmed that, in fact, Kevin Bacon is God. really is separated by six degrees.  Moreover, anyone is approximately six degrees away!

As a physicist, I think this is freakin awesome.  Even as a physics graduate student, I still might have a career at Google waiting for me in a few years!