Mycelium Studies

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Well, I've been studying mycelium for a few days now and I am pretty amazed.

Paul Stamets on 6 ways mushrooms can save the world | Video on TED.com
(Pay attention to 3:30 and few minutes onward)

Mycelium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Is this the largest organism in the world? This 2,400-acre (9.7 km2) site in eastern Oregon had a contiguous growth of mycelium before logging roads cut through it. Estimated at 1,665 football fields in size and 2,200 years old, this one fungus has killed the forest above it several times over, and in so doing has built deeper soil layers that allow the growth of ever-larger stands of trees. Mushroom-forming forest fungi are unique in that their mycelial mats can achieve such massive proportions.

Looking at all of these facts... Is it possible that mycelium is Earth's Eywa?

I plan to discover this. My idea is to go to a forest, find some mushrooms and connect my equipment (multimeter, function generator and osciloscope) to them. I plan to study the following things:

- If I inject a certain signal in to the mushroom, will the return signal be different than the one injected? This might prove that mycelium somehow processes the signal.
- If I connect a signal source, how far away can i go to still read the signal from a mushroom? This might prove that mycelium covers a huge area underneath the ground and connects everything.
- Check if a signal can be read from plants. This might prove that mycelium not only connects mushrooms, but has some kind of a connection with plants as well.
- Find a way to communicate with this giant organism. This might be the hardest of all the tasks, but if I succeed, it might be amazing...

The only thing I'm not sure of is if it will work with electricity at all since it might work purely on protein exchange...

I guess ill have to take some sampolz and measure signal transduction...

Thoughts?