I have a hardcover copy of Ripley's Believe It or Not - I think it was the 1929 copy, although it is missing the page with the date of publication. On page 43, there is an item called "The Murder at Midnight." What it says is that if everyone who was told about the murder told 2 other people within 12 minutes of being told, everybody on Earth would know about it before morning.
There are a few more people now then in 1929 on this planet (around 2 billion in 1929, now around 7 billion), but even today everybody on Earth would know (assuming each person was told only once) and if we used 6:48 a.m. for morning (daybreak) - the actual math would come out to about 8,589,934,592.
What's the experiment? Suppose you did the same thing that was done with a Murder at Midnight with this blog post - as soon as you see it, within 12 minutes tell 2 other people to visit, and ask each of them to tell 2 people within 12 minutes, and on and on.
Once you do visit this blog, please come by or subscribe if you have an interest in photography (doing photography or getting photographed) or an interest in being healthy. Thanks for stopping by, and for participating in this experiment.
Oh - the link to this blog post is: Tony Belmont Blog - Believe It or Not
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