There could be up to 10 metres (32ft) of mycorrhizal network in just a teaspoon of soil,
Someone please enlighten me: How can anything that’s maybe 0.01m be hosting something 10m long. Maybe I’m embarrassingly missing the obvious here…
It’s a network of the microscopic filaments, which, if lined up end-to-end, would be 10m long.
Another one: “There’s a half-mile of wire in a pinball machine!” according to pinball manufacturer Stern, and it has been shown to be true for at least one machine.
There is also something known as the coastline paradox, in which the length/area/volume of something increases towards infinity the more accurately you try to measure it. I could see it having an effect when measuring at these microscopic scales.
Thanks. Should’ve gone to bed earlier, i totally didn’t get it 😁
