Erdos patience

I don't deal too well with a situation where it seems to me that someone should know something that they don't. Like a physicist not knowing what a Hilbert space is, or a scientist unaware of an Erdos number. So strange.

I worked out today that I have an Erdos number of at most 8. This is a little tenuous, but goes as follows:

Erdos (0) -> Ernst Gabour Straus (1) -> Albert Einstein (2) -> John Archibald Wheeler (3) -> Kip Thorne (4) -> Carlton Morris Caves (5) -> Gerard Milburn (6) -> Cassius D'Helon (7) -> Stuart Wilson (8)

I need to check the Wheeler/Thorne connection, though it's gotta be strong. Perhaps there is a more direct route.